How To Be A Billionaire

How to Be a Billionaire is the first comprehensive picture of the real strategies and tactics that built the great business fortunes of modern times. Packed with engaging accounts of titans like Ross Perot, Richard Branson, and Phil Anschutz, it will show you principles that can increase your wealth and business acumen to the mogul level.

Martin Fridson looks at the careers, the methods, and the minds of self-made billionaires to distill the common keys to titanic accumulations of wealth. He identifies the methods, beliefs and behaviors every businessperson must understand and emulate to reach the pinnacle of riches. How to Be a Billionaire is a manual for success that every aspiring tycoon will benefit from.

Contents include:

Part One - Accepting the Challenge

    * Do You Sincerely Want to Be Super-Rich?

    * How Important Is Choosing an Industry?

Part Two - Fundamental Strategies

    * Take Monumental Risks

    * Do Business in a New Way

          o Ross Perot

          o Sam Walton

    * Dominate Your Market

          o John D. Rockefeller Sr

          o Bill Gates

    * Consolidate an Industry

          o Wayne Huizenga

    * Buy Low

          o J. Paul Getty

          o Laurence Tisch

          o Warren Buffett

    * Thrive on Deals

          o Kirk Kerkorian

          o Carl Icahn

          o Phil Anschutz

    * Outmanage the Competition

          o Richard Branson

    * Invest in Political Influence

    * Resist the Unions

Part Three - Putting It All together