Chapter 55How To Be A Billionaire
It is the serious purpose of this chapter to tell
you how to make a BILLION dollars. Now that sounds
like a lot of money. And it is. Specifically it is 1,000 million
dollars.
The only sure way to learn how to make a
billion dollars is to learn from a billionaire. There is no
point in taking advice from someone who hasn't done it.
The follOwing instructions on how to make a
billion dollars come from J. Paul Getty whose assets
exceed one and one-half billion dollars (more than 1,500
millionaires).
I witnessed an interview with billionaire J.
Paul Getty during which he was asked the secret of his
success. Here is his billion-dollar secret in two words:
"TRY HARDER!"
That's it. Just TRY HARDER. If that seems
too simple, think it through to its ultimate conclusion.