Transcript
Introduction
The book that I want to talk to you about today is How to be Rich and is written by J. Paul Getty. It did not start out as a book as a matter of fact. The book that I'm holding in my hand was first published over 60 years ago, but it started out because the founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner approached J. Paul Getty in the 1960s and he asked him to write a series of columns.
So he winds up writing -- J. Paul Getty winds up writing over five years 19 different essays with the goal of transferring and educating, basically transferring his experience and a knowledge that J. Paul Getty had about building businesses to the next generation to what he considered – what he called the younger businessmen of his day.
Now keep in mind, when he's writing these essays, he’s 73 years old. So almost everybody else is younger than him. And as such, this book is very different from the autobiography of J. Paul Getty, which I covered last week. Really, the way I would think about reading this book and what this podcast is going to be is we just have one of, if not the richest person on the planet at the time he's writing this, and he is just telling us the lessons that he derived from 60 years, nearly 60 years of building businesses.