Wealth Secrets of the One Percent

A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich

By: Sam Wilkin

Narrated by: Sam Wilkin, Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's Summary

Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!)

From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors.

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent gets at the heart of our feelings about the 1 percent of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001 percent who achieve billionaire status: We love to hate them, but we'd love to be them. Wilkin's insight into the sources of wealth is thought-provoking and rigorous, and he reveals that behind almost every great fortune is a "wealth secret" - a moneymaking technique designed to defeat the forces of market competition.

©2015 Sam Wilkin (P)2015 Hachette Audio

This is not a manual to getting "Obscenely Rich!"

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

This is book is for anyone who is interested about getting a historical perspective about wealthy people.

What does Sam Wilkin and Joe Barrett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I enjoyed listening to the delivery. The performance makes the story come alive. Unfortunately the story did not match the book title or the introduction.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Wealth Secrets of the One Percent?

I would completely rewrite the introduction. It's misleading about the content of the book. By the way I would change the title as well. .

Any additional comments?

The book is not bad if you are looking for history about wealth and wealthy people. This book is a lot like the tabloid newspapers with screaming titles and subtitles but no corresponding substance. However, unlike the tabloid it has good substance. Unfortunately not what you expect.

A bit roundabout, but pays off

The central focus here is to toss aside standard billboard slogans for free and fair competition as the engine of prosperity, and look at the techniques used by singular players to choke off competition and grab the really big money. It's swathed in a lot of stories that finally get around to very good and sharp points. I enjoyed the transition through history right into recent times of dodging around legal and contractual labyrinths (as with Bill Gates) to get to that cash-glutted end zone. There is some international flavor too, with magnates from India as an example. Indeed, the legal "wild west" of emerging markets seems to mint a lot of billionaires, and plenty of stats are here too.
I much prefer this to all the rah rah baloney I see as "business" titles. Maybe the cynical tone fits me.

Good listen

took a minute for me to enjoy it, but once I was a few chapters in I couldn't stop.

Very Enjoyable

A lot of useful information. I found it to be an enjoyable title. Some humor, some straight forward advice. I recommend it

more like a history book

He keeps talking abought the past nothing abought ....................................
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tons and tons of facts nothing actionable

it was hard to listen to chapter after chapter of facts. there was almost no analysis or how to

Good Insight

Loved the story telling of the worlds innovators and how patents, copyright and licensing can protect you from competition most memorable part is the story of Bill Gates telling his classmates he was going to earn $1 Million by the time he was 30 mission accomplished.

Train wreck of a book published to steal money

this book basically instructs it's readers that monopolies work. create them. make loads of money. pass it on to your kids.

in depth historical analysis

Wealth Secrets are hard to realize but author do w s a good job providing an in depth historical analysis of the super rich