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I don't think it's bad to read self-help books at all. It's just bad to take blanket generalizations as gospel.

His advice, in particular, that you should never give up equity seems the sort that he succeeded in spite of.



I don't either. That's why I said I was buying this one.

It's just a crap shoot, that's all.


Yeah, you just kind of have to have the attitude that you're searching for a diamond in the rough going in. I may buy that one as well.

Check out J Paul Getty's How To Be Rich, which is both about how to attain wealth and what to do once you succeed. Pretty awesome really.


Thanks. Added to the list for the next Amazon purchase.

Somebody should do a meta-book on success/self-help literature. I guess it started with "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill? I dunno, but there's a boatload of it out there.


My friend Richard Brodie did just that. It's called Getting Past OK. Worth a read.




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