Five Ways to Become Rich
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008If you are really serious about becoming wealthy, there are five primary ways that fortunes are made in America. The number one road to riches, at the head of the list and on the top of the hit parade throughout the history of America, is entrepreneurship, starting and building a successful business. Entrepreneurship includes every kind of business, from farming and trucking to real estate and computers. Seventy-four percent of self-made millionaires in America, going back 200 years, come from self-owned businesses. An individual started with an idea for a product or service, turned it into a business, built it up from the ground floor, and as a result, he became wealthy. People like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Jacob van Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ross Perot, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison are all people that we recognize who started with little or nothing and built their businesses from scratch. And there are millions of others.