Rags To Riches

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Who doesnt? From magician to manufacturing magnate, fi

nancial columnist
to real estate investor, poet to college dropout, here are the
profi les of 17 ordinary people who started with nothing-and
became millionaires!These are stories of people who
overcame poverty or in some cases middle class lifestyles
to single-handedly beat overwhelming odds and
achieved fi nancial success. They may not all be household
names, but their stories can serve as an inspiration to us all.

Praise for Rags to Riches:

There are as many paths to fi nancial success as there are

people who want to achieve
it. This book shows that wealth is within the reach of just about

anyone.

-Tom Siedell, Managing Editor, Your Money


The most extraordinary thing about Rags to Riches is that it affi

rms how ordinary
people have this tremendous, innate ability to achieve success

and generate wealth if
they put their minds to it.

-John E Wasik, Author, Retire Early and Live the Life You

Want Now


Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories of How Ordinary People

Achieved Extraordinary
Wealth goes well beyond the quick-fi x guru guidebooks to

explore effective, longterm
strategies that systematically build wealth. Its fascinating, candid

look at how
every day, people reach their goals by turning challenge into

opportunity.-Marla Brill,

Publisher, Brills Mutual Funds Interactive www.brill.com


A fascinating and instructive collection of biographies.

-Evan Simonoff, Associated Publishedr/Editor-in-Chief,

Financial Planning


Now readers everywhere can discover what Palm Beach Daily

News readers have
learned: Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine know everything there is

to know about personal
wealth-how to get it and how to grow it. Gails weekly column

in our paper tells
affl uent readers how to manage their fortunes. This book takes

a step back and tells
readers, in the words of millionaires whove been there and

done it, how to acquire a
vast personal fortune.

-Linda Rawls, Editor, Palm Beach Daily News


Husband and wife Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman know money.

They are
syndicated fi nance columnists and authors based in North Palm

Beach, Florida.
Their joint columns run weekly in the Boston Herald, on

America Online, and
in numerous newspapers. They are frequent guests on radio

and television as
well as columnists for Fundsinteractive.com and Quiken.com.

Alan and Gail are
the authors of Love, Marriage & Money, as well as the

bestseller, The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds.