this book will show you how to make money. that's the only reason it was written. i assume you would like to get rich. if you roll up your sleeves and genuinely follow its clear directions, you will become a rich, semi-retired man or woman in 10 to 12 years. sometimes the hardest thing to convince people of is the truth. in writing this book i have been acutely conscious, in advance, of the fellow who will inevitably pick up the book, glance at it, and sagely remark, "if he knows how to make a million, why doesn't he do it? why does he need to write a book?" then he will smile as if he was just too smart to be fooled, and had punctured the balloon with one thrust of his incisive perception.