By Steve Sjuggerud in DailyWealth:

My friend wanted to do so many things in life... He wanted to teach a college-level course (his father was a college professor), he wanted to write a screenplay for a movie, he wanted to appreciate art as well as any art critic, he wanted to write a fiction story and have it published... The list goes on. Oh, also on the list was "make a lot of money."

He thought about his list. And he figured if he accomplished the last one - "make a lot of money" - then he'd have the opportunity to accomplish the other things on that list, too. So that's what he gave his speech about... How he'd get rich.

What my friend did to get rich was to set out to get rich. For years, he made that his main goal. You might not like the idea of dedicating your life to amassing wealth. (And you don't need a fortune to live well.) But it worked for my friend... and it worked Felix Dennis.

Over the weekend, I read one of the best books ever written on getting rich. It's Felix Dennis' How to Get Rich (you can buy the book here).

Unlike most of the writers of self-help books, Dennis is actually very rich. And unlike most self-help writers, he didn't make his money pitching self-help seminars or DVDs. Instead, he made hundreds of millions of dollars publishing magazines like Maxim.

In short, he didn't need to write How to Get Rich...

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