Sam Wilkin. (2015). Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich. Little, Brown and Company.

Sam Wilkin. 2015. Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich. Little, Brown and Company.

Sam Wilkin, Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

Sam Wilkin. Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

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   • bioText: Sam Wilkin is a senior advisor to Oxford Economics, one of the world's foremost global forecasting and research consultancies, where he previously served as head of business research. He is also a senior advisor to Oxford Analytica, a strategic analysis and advisory firm that counts among its clients many global companies and more than twenty-five world governments. Wilkin received his B.A. in economics from Eckerd College, where he was the 2004 alumni fellow, and his M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago. He lives in New York.
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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% of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001% 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.

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   • source: Bryan Burrough, New York Times Book Review
   • content: Wilkin is a knowledgeable guide to the world's greatest fortunes.... Thoughtful, playful prose.
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   • source: Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
   • content: An amazing read... Get on to one of those [secrets] and you too can light your cigars with $100 bills..
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   • source: Darrell M. West, Vice President of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust
   • content: Sam Wilkin combs history for a provocative and well-written account of the secrets of wealth formation. Just reading this book will make you richer.
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   • source: Sam Pizzigati, Too Much
   • content: So how do our billionaires make their billions? Business analyst Sam Wilkin offers up the real scoop.... Delicious and insight-packed.
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   • source: Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail (UK)
   • content: Clever, entertaining.... Rich and poor will enjoy it equally, and if you have a modest entourage, I would consider getting copies for them too.
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   • source: Joe Shute, The Telegraph (UK)
   • content: Pay attention.... What makes this book different is Sam Wilkin is an inside man.
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   • source: Julia Richardson, Daily Mail (UK)
   • content: highly entertaining and useful guide to the 'fascinating economic puzzle waiting to be solved' behind every billion-dollar fortune.... If you too would like to get your hands on today's equivalent of 250,000lb of fattened goose meat, Wilkin's book is a brilliant place to start.
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   • source: Nick Wolven, Washington Independent Review of Books
   • content: This is at heart a theoretical book, not an historical one. Its merit lies not in the stories it tells, but in the connections it draws between them.
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   • source: Life Elsewhere
   • content: A great read.... Infused with a great sense of humor.
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      May 18, 2015
      This exhaustively researched, misleadingly titled tome by economics consultant Wilkin claims that nearly every enormous fortune is founded on a “wealth secret,” a slightly dodgy, if not actively illegal, strategy. The author aims to provide guidance to those who are interested not just in a “minor” increase in their fortunes, but in achieving private-island, personal-jet, “diamond-encrusted light fixtures” levels of wealth. Acquiring billions takes both smarts and luck, and all of the world’s living billionaires—there are over 1,600—had both. The author tells the stories of individuals, companies, and groups throughout history that attained astronomical wealth, including J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Circuit City, and neoliberal-era Indian industrialists. What he offers are not so much secrets as lessons derived from well-documented success stories: “don’t be the best, be the only”; “bigger is still better”; own your own business; network like a fiend. While the history is intriguing, the tone and approach—presto-change-o magical thinking—are not. Readers looking for a shortcut to wealth are likely to be disappointed. Agent: George Lucas, Inkwell Management.

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      June 15, 2015
      Of robber barons, monopsonists, and oligarchs, in which it's revealed that the free market is anything but free. Want to become "obscenely" rich, as the subtitle of this illuminating book has it? Well, the best bet is to be born that way. The next best bet is to have a "wealth secret," the better-mousetrap sine qua non for building an empire. Economic forecaster Wilkin, head of business research at Oxford Economics, has good fun looking at how some fabulously rich people got to be that way. Though he teases a bit with the thought that you and I can "exploit their wealth secrets to become fabulously rich" as well, in the end, his book becomes a subtle, between-the-lines indictment of capitalism as it is mostly practiced these days. For instance, as Wilkin notes, the aspiring wealthy person doesn't want a level playing field-far from it. Nor does he or she want competition, for competition is messy and tedious, and "when masters of wealth secrets compete, they do not compete in the market" but instead, the courtroom and other arenas where they can effectively destroy their enemies without having to face them on the shelves and divide the market. This was the way of the great 19th-century robber barons, too, as with John D. Rockefeller, "strangling his competitors with cartels," and his ilk, who regarded competition as "that oppressive force that prevents great men from achieving fortunes commensurate with their greatness." Thus it is in emerging markets, where Wilkin counsels would-be monopolists to head, since corrupt political systems favor creative and extralegal ways of securing the startup money necessary to become a tycoon. And besides, he writes, "it's good to go where no one else wants to go." Against this backdrop, so-called natural monopolies like Microsoft look benign. Eye-opening and sure to make libertarian heads explode.

      COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      July 1, 2015
      Business research executive Wilkin studies some of the people throughout history who have become enormously wealthy and their methods. He reviews ancient Rome, where the richest were hugely rich, and investigates the nineteenth-century so-called robber barons, whose wealth has never been equaled in the U.S. Considering the banking sector, he indicates that less than five-percent of more than 1,600 global billionaires are bankers; those seeking billions should look to the emerging world. Yet banking has produced thousands of multimillion-dollar fortunes for the one percent top income earners. The key to great fortunes is wealth secrets, and Wilkin presents seven of them: create legislated monopoly businesses with no competition, use profits in retail and software to attract modern-day wealth seekers, do business where no one wants to go (e.g., Russia), and secure unlimited access to capital with government guarantees.Wikin shows us that the extremely wealthy are good at doing one thing above all else: preventing other people from doing what they are doing. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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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% of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001% 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.

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