How to Become a Self-Made Millionaire

You are the average of the five people that you spend the most time with. 

If you spend most of your time with criminals or lazy people, odds are that your life looks very much like theirs. 

If you spend most of your time associating with millionaires, you too will most likely become a millionaire. 

There's nothing magical about this. 

It's simply a product of the law of averages and human susceptibility to influence. 

And yet not everyone is lucky enough to be able to rub shoulders with millionaires every day. 

I've been very lucky in my life. 

My parents sent me to the same elite private high school that Bill Gates attended. 

I was able to use this education as a spring board to get an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, and then a PhD from UC-Berkeley. 

It was at Stanford that I met Peter Thiel-- founder of PayPal, early Facebook investor, and now a billionaire. 

After graduate school, Peter hired me to work at his multi-billion dollar hedge fund. 

After that, I ran my own hedge fund. 

I'm now retired from the money management business. 

Today I run www.trader.university, where I teach the best stock trading strategies and investment techniques used by professional traders. 

I've been skilled (or lucky) enough to have one success after another. 

And yet it's important to note that I don't consider myself a self-made millionaire. 

I’ve had a lot of help along the way. 

Without my wife, my children, my parents and my brother, my friends, my teachers, and other mentors, I would never be where I am today. 

Unfortunately, not everyone can launch their careers by attending Stanford University like I did. 

In fact, I'm pretty certain I couldn't get into Stanford today. 

So we're faced with a dilemma. 

To become a millionaire, you need to hang out with other millionaires. 

And yet it's difficult to hang out with other millionaires, if you are not a millionaire yourself. 

It's a classic catch-22. 

My solution is this book. 

I’ve interviewed five ordinary people who became self-made millionaires. 

They did not just inherit a large chunk of change. 

Instead, each of them earned every penny of it. 

For this book, I won't be interviewing Peter Thiel, or any of the other professional hedge fund managers or Silicon Valley founders and investors that I know.

Those will have to wait for a later book. 

For this book, I wanted to focus on ordinary people who became millionaires. 

These are people who worked hard, but also worked smart. 

All of them have another thing in common: 

They are readers of my books on trading and investing. 

I’m blessed to have been able to interview them.

One of the best things about writing and publishing books is all of the interesting people who contact you.

The self-made millionaires in this book are all voracious readers.

Even after making millions, they have never stopped reading and learning. 

I’m grateful to them for having agreed to do these interviews with me.

By sharing their different paths to wealth, they are going to help a lot of people who read their stories. 

That being said, all of them are private individuals who are not looking for publicity. 

For this reason, I've omitted their names, and changed some identifying details to protect their privacy. 

Even so, you are still going to get to "hang out" with them by reading these interviews. 

Reading this book will change your perspective on life, business, and money. 

Take out a pen and paper, and take some notes.

Absorb the morning routines, business hacks, investing strategies, and life philosophies that you will encounter. 

Most of all, get inspired. 

If they could do this, so can you. 

In the 21st century, anyone can become a millionaire. 

All it takes is some hard work and the right road map. 

Now it's time to turn the page, and start learning from these millionaire road maps.

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