I'm currently reading How to get rich by Felix Dennis. The front cover claims it's supposed to reveal some secrets to getting rich. I'm currently on page 70 and I haven't come across as anything revolutionary yet (hopes are high though), but one thing that struck me was a paragraph in the preface, written by a someone, who is worth about half a billion dollars:
[I wrote this book to]…demonstrate that that becoming rich has given me the most precious thing in life. And just what is the most precious thing in life that riches can supply? Easy: For me, it's Time. Time. Time to read and write poetry if I want to. Or to write a book if it takes my fancy. Time to travel on the slightest whim, to walk in the woods, to think, to commission art, to read, to drink, to hang out with friends and loved ones … to do just about anything really, as long as it does not involve day after grinding day making money in an office or a factory for someone else. That's what money can do.
Wow! This is from a guy who "outriches" me by more than a factor 1000 and what he seeks and has is essentially the same as what I seek and have. Actually, if me outsourcing my bookcover can be considered commissioning art, and if blogging is poetry (ahem!) we enjoy exactly the same things. This is somewhat unexpected given the factor 1000 difference. Usually I expect differences in kind when differences exceed a factor 10.
So good news everybody! You really don't need $500,000,000+ to have that time and live well.
He does mention some of the cars he can buy, which I can't, but on the other hand he can't drive them, so I guess that makes us even 
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