How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
Felix Dennis built Maxim and a string of other titles into a fortune, and this book is his attempt to explain how he did it without the usual self help gloss. He is direct about the personal costs, the loneliness, and the willingness to burn bridges that serious wealth building requires. The core lesson is ownership. Salaries, options, and status jobs are traps if the goal is real money, so Dennis pushes readers toward equity, cash flow, and the discipline to keep buying more of what works. He walks through hiring, negotiating, fear of failure, and the specific mistakes he made across three decades. The book is opinionated, funny, and often uncomfortable, which is why founders keep passing it around.
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The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
British magazine magnate Felix Dennis writes a profane, unsparing manual on why most people never get rich and what it actually takes to build real wealth.
Wilkinson has called it one of the most honest books on entrepreneurship he has read, and he often cites Dennis's insistence on ownership over salary as the mindset that shaped his own move from agency work into holding company investing.
It works for beginners, but the language is coarse and the advice assumes you actually want to build a business. Readers looking for a gentle introduction to personal finance will find it too raw.
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets was written by Felix Dennis, published in 2008 by Portfolio.
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
