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Newsweek, June, 2008 by John Sparks

How to Get Rich: One of the World ’ s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets

By Felix Dennis

Too bad his U.S. publisher opted to retitle Dennis’ chart-topping U.K. best seller “The Getting of Money.” The original nicely captured both the author’s single-mindedness in pursuing wealth and the quirky raconteur’s voice that makes the Maxim publisher’s tome a better read than the typical rags-to-riches saga. Whether he’s condemning the debilitating effects of a regular paycheck or praising the virtues of inexperience, Dennis is an enthusiastic contrarian and voluble storyteller, though given the recent flap over his claim (now recanted) that he once pushed a rival to his death from a cliff, readers may prefer to season his tales with a few grains of...