Think & Grow Rich Doesn't Work!

Working to be rich does! Or does it?

Believe it or not, though thinking rich helps in making one feel rich, it is in what one does that ensures affluence is reachable and do-able.

Being rich, more than just a state of mind, is actually a state of one’s pocket. Getting those greens in your wallet require a lot of luck, preparation and opportunity to come your way.

The following are helpful tips and advice to hopefully snag that richness and swim in it. Acquiring lots of wealth has never been this easy, or is it?

Look out for inheritance

Believe it or not, this is a very old yet a very effective tried and tested way that today’s families got rich in the first place.

During the early 1800s as well as 1900s, just right before there were laws put up on taxes, trusts, etc., the wealthy families of America built large empires and amassed for themselves lots and lots of money through various industries like banking, oil, newspapers, transportation, sugar, land, etc.

That wealth - like an heirloom - has been passed onto generations upon generations of family.

Therefore, inheritance is one of the surest and easiest way to get rich. Provided of course that the family before yours was rich enough to do so.

The down side of this method is that wealth inheritance only works if you are born to the appropriately rich family.

If not, then go and establish your own wealth and pass it on to your children and your children’s children. Oprah wasn’t born rich, but look at her now.

It is never too late or too early to start.

Marry up, marry rich

If inheritance seems a long shot, try marrying someone rich. If you are extremely lucky, that person you just married could be kind, lovable and generous. If not, then divorce will make sure you get what is handsomely due you.

However, for this to work, you have to make sure that you get married in a state where property community laws favors you.

Work, work, work

If inheriting wealth and marrying rich does not work, there is always an alternative: work for the money.

It is very rare that people get rich just by holding a job, though it does pay the bills. What people do to get rich is building a company and owning a company. Eventually, the company goes public thereby bringing the owners millions upon millions of those green dollars.

Inventing something everyone would find useful is another way to get rich and at the same time help society benefit from it. Some examples is the paper clip, eBay or Post-it.

Win, win, win

If inheriting wealth is not your cup of tea, if you cannot marry rich and if working and working still won’t bring you wealth, try winning it.

After all, that is what lotteries are for. Eventually, someone wins at the lottery, and hope that it could be you. Though the chances of winning the lottery is a lot less, compared to perhaps being struck by lightning, it is only worth a buck so why not try it out?

Gamble for money

If marrying does not work, if inheriting does not work, if winning does not work, try gambling. Believe it or not, a total of fifty million Americans play poker. There are even those that win millions out of it.

Watching these poker players battle and win it out on tv seems easy, however the fact of the matter is, it is not.

Steal money?

This is a loser’s attempt to get rich, but it could work. That is if you are willing to risk life, limb and one hundred years of your life in federal prison if caught.

Being a CEO is one good way to steal money. Cook those accounting books, purchase a thirty million dollar home, lie and hope that no one notices. But this is really not advisable.

Another un-recommended way to get rich is to deal, either drugs, heroine or crack as well as other non-approved meds by the FDA.

Invest your money

This is a sure way to get rich and a very clean one too. Real estate is a good investment with its rate going up by ten percent every year.

Though this process takes time, and also needs a humongous down payment to get started, you will get rich still, just right now.

All in all, getting rich is easy as long as you put your mind and heart to what it is you want to do. But the best way to get money is actually to give it. See how it works. That is of course, it should be given willingly and with a happy – not a heavy – heart.