Felix Dennis: How to get Rich Ignore 'great ideas'. Concentrate on great execution. Focus. Keep your eye on the ball marked 'The Money Is Here'. Hire talent smarter than you. Delegate. Share the annual pie Sell before you need to, or when bored. Empty your mind when negotiating. Fear nothing and no one.

If you’re looking toward the long-term goal of getting wealthy, you should ask yourself, “Is this authentic to me? Is it myself that I am projecting?” And then, “Am I productizing it? Am I scaling it? Am I scaling with labor or with capital or with code or with media?”

Death wakes people up and the closer it gets, the more awake and aware we become. When the end is near, we suddenly start thinking, What the hell am I doing? Why did I wait this long? Until then, most of us go through life as if we had all the time in the world.

  Rules to be observed in proper trade: Endeavor to be perfect in the calling you are engaged in; and be assiduous in every part thereof; INDUSTRY being the natural means if acquiring  wealth, honor, and reputation ; as IDLENESS is of  poverty, shame, and disgrace. 

How is it that in a city so fine as Babylon, wealthiest in the world at the time, there are haphazard arrays of living arrangements, with some poor and some wealthy? How is it that good, honest men will toil ceaselessly but barely have enough money for food, and at the end of the day be left with as little as the king's slaves carrying water from the Euphrates?