In the current society, working for a salary leads to a dead-end. For most people, it is impossible even to meet the expenses of living with the wages they make. With job security being a constant threat in the current environment, employees often have to spend extraordinary amount of time to keep up with their duties. Thus the average job not only takes up most of the time of the average life, but it also zaps the energy of the average person. This is unproductive because one has to have enough time and energy to think and acquire knowledge to improve one’s life because none of us are born with knowledge. Unfortunately, schools do not teach practical lessons of life. Books are the best source under these conditions. In my book, Uncommon Commonsense Steps to Super Wealth, I have reviewed some of the best books written on investment.

By working at an average job, most people can only save so little. Even if you could save a lot, such saving will not amount to much unless you know how to invest these savings for the future. People often confuse Speculation with Investment. Most, including professionals, who call themselves Investors, are actually engaged in Speculation. When you buy stock or real estate only because it goes up in price you are a Speculator. Buying anything at an inflated price with the intention of selling it is Speculation because you hope that the price of your purchase will continue its upward momentum regardless of its value.

Investment, on the other hand, is a purchase one makes after careful analysis of its fundamentals and comparison of the anticipated return to a return on a safer investment. For example, if you buy property that you can rent to cover your mortgage and other expenses, then you are a real estate Investor. If you buy a company run by good management, making satisfactory profit margins and a return on capital exceeding the return on a secure investment such as treasuries, then you are a stock Investor.

Speculation is a dangerous game. Speculation ends with very little, or no, advance warning. To think that an amateur can speculate his or her way to super wealth is a delusion. Also, in order to make wealth, one has to understand the society without being naïve. Let’s look at some facts:

We no longer have great political leaders who put the interest of the people that they govern in the forefront. It has become a survival of the fittest world, where every one is for him or her self. Most people get into politics for power and money. Politicians need the people to work and pay their taxes so that there is enough money in the treasury for the politicians to give some away to their friends and to those whom they can depend on for their longevity. In addition, politicians borrow what they don’t have. Meanwhile, the Central Banks around the world, led by the U.S. Federal Reserve, create money out of thin air and flood the financial markets, making the Speculators (and also the smart Investors) billions. Almost nothing of this trickles down to the average salaried person, and thus he or she hardly shares any of this wealth. The other danger in what’s happening in the financial markets is that when financial bubbles burst, Speculators get wiped out. Only the smart Investors are left standing. This is why the average person has to understand the difference between Speculation and Investment, and then learn how to invest properly.

To give an example, the U.S. stock market (DJI) index that took over 80 years to get to 836, jumped over 1,200 percent in a matter of two decades, beginning in the 1980s. The Japanese stock market beginning in the 1970s jumped over 1,500 percent. During this period anyone who knew these issues and invested in the markets made an amazing amount of wealth. One million dollars invested during these periods would have garnered over $100 million in a decade or so. Even today this process continues around the world. If you invest properly, you could accumulate enough wealth instead of worrying about jobs that are vanishing to the markets with cheap labor.

As unpleasant as it is to bring up these facts, this is the brutal reality. It makes no sense to live without this knowledge because it will guarantee you hardship from cradle to grave. To make wealth you have to stop being naïve and understand the harsh facts about society. My books will provide you that insight and direction. You cannot go wrong reading books that challenge the norm, expose myths, and force you to think.

The right combination of Character, Knowledge and Capital could make one Super Wealthy within a reasonable time. Contrary to the common myths, one does not have to be a genius to become one of the richest persons on earth. To emphasize this valuable but misunderstood theme and to give you direction to put this theory to test is the purpose of this Web Site. Although perfecting your character and gaining knowledge is within your control, finding capital may not be. Thus we advocate partnership with likeminded people to overcome that drawback. Just remember that there is power in numbers!

The first book of the anthology on wealth, Uncommon Commonsense Steps to Super Wealth, will illustrate ways to start with nothing and climb to the top of the wealth scale with the help of commonsense principles. The second book on the series Uncommon Commonsense Steps to Speculation, Hedging, Arbitrage, Investment and Money Management, will give you a more focused approach and an understanding of the behavior of people who indulge in financial markets. Then we will follow up with a few more books that will give you specialized knowledge needed to complete your journey to super wealth.

The sub-theme of this Site and of the Anthology is to recognize the difficulty that one who has not been born wealthy has to face in attempting a journey into super wealth. We acknowledge that difficulty by equating it to a Hero’s Journey. The Heroes in fiction and Myth often receive energy for persistence and endurance from Supernatural Aid overlooking their moves. Then, our objective is to be such aid for real-life heroes. We hope that having accomplished super wealth, the majority of such heroes will give back their wealth and knowledge to society for the betterment of humanity. Human suffering is man-made and can be man-corrected. Enforce just and equitable rule of law in society and eliminate corruption and cold-hearted bureaucracy, and most human suffering will vanish. This is important since the heroes in myth and fiction that return to give back their wealth and wisdom to society in a constructive manner are conspicuous by their absence in the real world today. So we desperately need a new breed of heroes.

Throughout human history, benevolent leaders from politics to economics to spirituality have provided knowledge and strategies to help humanity eliminate hunger, sickness and suffering and make society more equitable and egalitarian. Such efforts have been received well by many people and thus in some parts of the world we have generous societies. Also we have enough examples of societies repudiating any progressive movements. Often this is done either by instant rejection and elimination of initiators of such progress or by adoption of such movements only to get the masses under their spell to achieve leadership and then pervert those very principles. Perversions of valid strategies allow leaders to use their powers to help themselves and a handful of their cronies with ruthless disregard for humanity. That sums up the world that we live in today.

Our goal is to give knowledge to common man and woman, who have access to neither mentors nor accurate facts, so that they can avoid myths in making wealth and narrow down their focus to what has been proven to create wealth. Life being too short, there is no other way to achieve super wealth for those not born into certain socioeconomic classes. Thus we hope that more benevolent people could participate in the search for wealth and freedom and make a better world in a thriving free enterprise system practiced under fair and equitable rule of law. We will provide an anthology of uncommon commonsense steps to wealth that will give you this knowledge. We will also provide you with software that will help you in monitoring your investment and maintaining an efficient and an organized money management system.

You could read the book Uncommon Commonsense Steps to Super Wealth, the first of the series, to get a glimpse of this effort.

Historically, non-fiction classics that have passed the test of time and readership have one thing in common. They contain logic and rationality that appeal to most reasonable people with common sense. That’s what we have tried to do in this book. We have delivered the brutal truth about the current society, describing how difficult it is to accomplish super wealth unless you work methodically and persistently, preferably in partnership, with likeminded people. We advocate that following in the footsteps of those who have done a similar feat before you to be the most practical way to achieve anything.

As part of our conclusion, we provide facts to prove that being a billionaire is not impossible in one’s lifetime, drawing from real life examples of those who began with essentially nothing, and then climbed to the top of the “Forbes 500 List of Richest in the World”. We illustrate how these people did so by building their character, acquiring knowledge and by taking focused action. Also, we narrow down the way these people have achieved such wealth only to a mere pittance of methods, while simultaneously alerting you to the myths so that you won’t engage in exercises in futility.

On the subject of wasting time, if you were to achieve such great heights in life, you have to manage your time wisely since life is indeed too short. Addressing the concept of efficiency, we have tried our best to write this book as economically as possible. Our goal in the book was not to write a single sentence or a single word unless it actually contributes to the knowledge that you have to acquire in order to make your Journey to Super Wealth (that we define as a “Hero’s Journey”). You will see that we have repeated some logic throughout the book, but repetition is the mother of all skill. So, reiterating crucial points is necessary.

Often after having read a book on “How To Become Wealthy” we feel as if there was a void. We agree with many things the book suggests but still are not clear as to how to follow through. What we have tried to do in writing this book also is to fill that void. Throughout the book, we have equated a great book to an eternal friend who always is ready with sound advice, sound judgment, and keen perception. There are many books just as there are many friends. Most, in both cases, merely waste your precious time. We can assure you that this book will be one of those rare friends, a partner that you will need, to be a continual source of life-changing information. We cut to the proverbial “chase”, not wasting time by mincing words.