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The Four Fastest Ways to Profit

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The blessing in disguise and the lesson I learned very early in life, at age twenty-two, was that there is no set path to success. For myself, I had no illusions. There was no meal ticket; no safe, secure job to cling to; no golden handcuffs to hold me down; no job security to worry about. I had to become an entrepreneur and carve a niche for myself or crawl back into school for more education. Further education was not an option, because I believed the words of Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Instead, I began to study money, business, and entrepreneurship in the school of life, and I learned the most important concept to create all of the wealth I would ever need: Money, People, Deal.

Henry Ford, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time, was once asked, “So what, you’re a billionaire! What would you do if you lost it all tomorrow?” Mr. Ford replied, “I would have it all back in five years . . . and more!” Donald Trump, one of the most famous real estate investors of our generation, was nearly nine billion dollars in the hole, and he came back richer than ever. Steve Jobs, arguably the best entrepreneur of all time, was kicked out of Apple, the company he founded, only to start a succession of very successful tech companies and return to Apple to make it the most valuable company in history.

What did Henry Ford, Donald Trump, and Steve Jobs all understand that the average person does not? When I began studying business and money, I used to wonder what separated these men, with their ability to create wealth and value out of thin air, from others. What is amazing about all of these men is not just the size of the wealth they have created, but the speed at which they have done so. Henry Ford created all of his wealth in his lifetime and Steve Jobs did the same. Trump had a small head start, but the speed and magnitude of his wealth is just as unexpected.

When I began to study these men, I learned that they all understood how to create wealth by putting Money, People, and Deals together. This is the skill of the entrepreneur and the key to creating the fastest wealth possible. In my business I made the decision to focus on the fastest ways to wealth and placed less emphasis on the slow ways. Life is too short to only rely on the slow ways to reach your destination.