Instant Millionaires

The Secrets of Overnight Success

Max Gunther

• Publisher: Harriman House
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780857190000
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857190888
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Investments & Securities
• Index: Business

In this book you will meet three dozen impatient people. They weren't satisfied with the slow, plodding, money-saving route to financial security, the safe route that most of us feel stuck with. They wanted instant wealth - and they got it.As Max Gunther points out, our folklore frowns on the idea of quick money. As in the fable about the race between a tortoise and a hare. "In the fable, the hare loses. The stories in this book are not fables. They are true. In these stories, the hares win."They are a richly varied lot, these happy hares. Gunther opens with a few dazzling millionaire legends, such as the man who invented Monopoly. You'll then meet fascinating characters such as: Harvey Shuster, who beat the stock market; Howard Brown, who decided to be rich and became a multi-millionaire within three years; and a group of men who made fast fortunes on fads such as the Hula Hoop and the Frisbee.These stores illustrate that the dream of quick money isn't such a ridiculous dream after all. Read these tales about hares who have won and when you have, maybe you'll decide to run with them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Publishing details
• About the author
• Acknowledgments
• Editor’s Note
• 1. Shiny Dimes and the Slow-Money Ethic
• 2. Some Grand Old Legends
• 3. Two Well-Traveled Routes
• 4. The Fantasy Land of Franchising
• 5. The Second-Man Effect
• 6. Fast Frolics in the Fun and Fad Markets
• 7. Right Place, Right Time
• 8. The Business of Show Business
• 9. A Simple Idea is Enough
• 10. Not by Bread Alone
• 11. The Man Who Decided to be Rich
• 12. The International Ploy
• 13. The Speeders
• 14. Missing from the Curriculum
• 15. The Anti-Salary Philosophy
• 16. Instant Successes Yet To Be
• 17. Route Maps