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i am constantly staying up-to-date on business news and philosophies via inc magazine and fastcompany magazine print issues and websites + weblogs. the latest gem comes from a post two weeks ago on inc's business owners council blog:

I'm looking forward to reading a new book, "Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing" by George Cloutier.

According to the blurb, "this blunt work will not be for the timid business owner afraid to re-evaluate...". He offers some harsh lessons for those in business, such as "love your business more than your family" and "teamwork is vastly overrated."

Indeed, business success tends to flow towards those who are willing to do the most to get it: the hardest working, the most focused, the most cut-throat, even.

To get wealthy, you need one or more of the following things to happen:

• Be born wealthy or marry into wealth


• Get very lucky--this is the strategy for those savvy lottery players out there


• Be extremely talented at something valuable--the route for most who aspire to Hollywood or sports fame (best when combined with "luck" above)


• Work very hard and put wealth creation first ahead of almost everything else.

Which of these approaches are you counting on?

ive been trying to extol these values throughout my journey as a young entrepreneur and on this weblog. i dont not generally subscribe to modern american politics. i would classify myself as an anarchist-libertarian, if i had to classify myself. i have emotions. i feel for the poor and downtrodden, but i am also a realist. i do not expect anyone to help me out. the rich do not care for the poor, and why should they? one of my goals of amassing great wealth is to be able to make the world a better place. the accumulation of wealth is not inherently bad. the reason why things are in the state of affairs that they are, is because not enough people who care about the poor, the sick, the environment, etc. have put themselves in positions of money+power enabling positive change to occur.

no offense to ghandi, mother teresa or mlk jr, [i hold their methods and ideals in high regard] but id rather look to be a bit like a rockefeller, carnegie, vanderbilt or rothschild.. no?

"voted obama but mccain was my tax bracket tho.. i sarah palin h**s." --the clipse: 's.l.u.' from the free 2008 mixtape play cloths presents: road to til the casket drops.