Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty
hearts can do that.
—Norman Vincent Peale}
How to Get Rich
I
wrote a book that came out in 2004 called How to Get Rich.I
can remember when I was discussing appropriate titles with the
editor, and we had a list of them. We kept going back and forth
with different ideas, with clever and catchy titles. I finally said,
“What everyone wants to know is how to get rich. Why don’t we
just call the book How to Get Rich?” To me, that was getting to the
point. I’d appreciate that as a reader, so that’s the title we chose.
Getting rich isn’t always simple. I have and will always con-
tinue to emphasize the importance of loving what you do first. If
your goal is just to make money, you are shortchanging yourself.
You might also run out of energy while you’re trying to make that
money. Passion is an incredible source of fuel that can get you
through the tough spells that are bound to come up. So the first
step in preparing to becoming rich is to find something that you
absolutely love doing.
Maybe you don’t know what you want to do yet. That’s fine—
just set your compass to finding out what it is, and there’s a good