Product Description

How You Can Strike It Rich in Life and Business
Finally, the secrets of the truly wealthy are revealed! Now you can uncover what the world's richest people know that you don't—and learn to apply simple, practical, yet innovative methods that will enrich and enhance your life and bottom line.
In What Rich People Know & Desperately Want to Keep Secret, author Brian Sher shares the best-of-the-best ideas and secrets to help you discover the basic but powerful principles necessary to attain personal and financial success.
"A must-read. Packed with common sense and sound strategies, this book shows how you can succeed and get a taste of the good life."
—James W. Robinson, senior adviser, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and author of the bestselling The Excel Phenomenon, Empire of Freedom, and The New Professionals
"A good primer for the self-directed, self-motivated, and self-employed. This is the new bible for the self-made millionaire. Follow it well and reap the rewards."
—Edmund J. Pankau, CEO of Pankau Consulting

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #627295 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-13
• Released on: 2001-10-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From Booklist
The cat is out of the bag! The "average" millionaire is not so different than the average anyone else. Thomas Stanley and William Danko told us so in The Millionaire Next Door (1996), and since then there have been a host of spin-offs and imitators telling us essentially the same thing. Most of the wealthy live simply, invest carefully, and buy sensibly. One significant distinction is that most millionaires are also successful in starting their own businesses and sticking with them. It seems that this is the case in Australia, too. Sher himself made his money by starting a publishing enterprise that specializes in putting out summaries of management books for businesspersons who do not have much time to read. Although American authors have focused on the simple lifestyles and investing habits of the well-to-do, Sher emphasizes their entrepreneurial skills. His guide is as much of a small-business manual as it is a how-to-get-rich one. Emphasizing the advantages of being one's own boss, Sher covers motivation, marketing, managing people, interpersonal skills, and business systems and procedures. David Rouse
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Review
"A must-read. Packed with common sense and sound strategies, this book shows how you can succeed and get a taste of the good life."
—JAMES W. ROBINSON, senior advisor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and author of the bestselling The Excel Phenomenon, Empire of Freedom, and The New Professionals

"A good primer for the self-directed, self-motivated, and self-employed. This is the new bible for the self-made millionaire. Follow it will and reap the rewards."
—EDMUND J. PANKAU, CEO of Pankau Consulting

Review
"A must-read. Packed with common sense and sound strategies, this book shows how you can succeed and get a taste of the good life."
?JAMES W. ROBINSON, senior advisor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and author of the bestselling The Excel Phenomenon, Empire of Freedom, and The New Professionals

"A good primer for the self-directed, self-motivated, and self-employed. This is the new bible for the self-made millionaire. Follow it will and reap the rewards."
?EDMUND J. PANKAU, CEO of Pankau Consulting

Customer Reviews

Some common sense advice
This one is nicely put together, some good examples, easy to read. I think it's all common sense, really, so I have no idea what anyone would be desperate to keep secret - I suppose it's a catchy title so you'll buy the book. You're not going to learn much new here (unless you don't really know anything about money and its creation to start with!) Still, I have spent several happy hours with this book - it is, at least, an easy and entertaining read, and it doesn't help to be reminded about 'the basics.'

best book ever written on business
I read the guy belows review. Go check out all his other reviews. They are all the same critical and negative. I have read this book and I own and run 5 business with combine sales of over $50 Million and can tell you this book is a masterpiece for anyone at any level, if you understand the gems on every page. This guy obviously can't recognise these as he is most likley not in business at all judging by the comments he makes. Buy this book, it worth every cent.

Disappointed...Didn't Have the "Meat" It Claims In the Title!
It's rare that I give a 3-star rating for a book and I (almost) never listen to the low-star comments/feedback from other readers. I should have listened in this case.

The book starts out very promising. He makes you believe that he will be presenting some solid, workable information later on in the book.

Except that solid, workable information never manifests itself.

He just goes on and on about basic, common sense business practices that anyone who has ever run a small business, even a home-based business, would know.

If you have no business experience then maybe you should invest in this book, except that it won't give you all the info you need. Not by a long shot. It's good for inspirational value for a newbie in business or someone aspiring to own a business (who never has in the past) but, if you are serious about starting a business and need the bricks and mortar info to get you started, you need other books too like Michael Gerber's E-Myth Revisited (highly, highly recommended!), not just a bunch of inspirational hype like this guy presents.

Decent book but if you have even marginal experience in business then you may want to pass on this one.