The Billion Dollar Secret: 20 Principles of Billionaire Wealth and Success Hardcover – June 12, 2019

Recommend. 328 pages. It’s a quick read and starts well. Like much else in life, you may 80/20 the content. In my opinion, you’ll find the 80/20 in Chapter 6 (The Six Skills of Business Mastery) and Chapter 7 (The Six Habits of Wealth).I won’t give up too much of the book, but the principles outlined probably sound very similar to other books on entrepreneurship and personal development. On the six skills of business mastery, five are people skills. On the six wealth habits, I’d say one can summarize them as constant improvement of the whole person towards a goal.I enjoyed how the book opens with stories of rags to riches. The one that sticks out the most is the story of Infosys and its founder, N. R. Narayana Murthy. I’ll quickly summarize it here. In India, 1981, at age 35, Narayana founded Infosys with several partners. Infosys is a computer company. He founded the company with frequent power outages and with no computer.Back then, he needed a license to obtain a computer, and he spent three years and 50 visits from Bangalore to Delhi to get that license. The distance was 1,500 miles, and he was too poor to afford a plane ticket. So, he traveled two days each way (four days round trip). That’s 200 days over three years just commuting, fighting bureaucracy!So what about doing any computer work during those three years? Narayana found a customer in America who allowed Infosys to program on his computer. Six of the cofounders went to America while Narayana remained in India.What about communicating? On average, it took about five to seven years to get a phone line back then. Infosys only took one year. In the meantime, Narayana used a public phone at a post office to reach the cofounders and customers in America. However, if they needed to call him, they couldn’t. When Narayana finally did get a phone line, most of the time, there wasn’t a signal, and when there was, it was usually busy.How did the American team send work back to India? It would’ve taken about three weeks by mail to send programming code one way. Infosys decided to use fax instead, which generated additional problems, which no doubt made for an even more incredible story to hear.

I have only read about 3 chapters into this book so far and it is the * Best business/Billionaire mindset book that I've ever read! This book took me to a much higher level in mindset and beliefs etc., and it is encouraging my actions! The author uses quotes of Billionaires with Billionaire mindset concepts and principles to convey what is needed for you and me to achieve extraordinary success in Entrepreneurship. What is most obvious is the author's unique and formidable case he makes for how Billionaires achieved a billion + dollars networth status and for the creation of massive financial value. This book is exactly what I've been looking for (for years) and I finally found it! This book deserves to be or should have been a best seller by now, and this book should be a recommended reading or required reading in business colleges ! I wish that my business college required this book for me to read, in fact, this book has better wisdom and knowledge than most or all my previous classes/courses at my business university, (this book is), for a much reduced fraction of the cost compared to business college tuition. I highly recommend this book to anyone, just buy this book and read it slowly and thoughtfully from start to finish, you will certainly be glad you did ! and you will not regret it. 5 Star Review ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ , Highly Recommended, "The Billion Dollar Secret" , written by Author: Rafael Badziag

Overall, great book. Well organized and love the structure- the billionaires are not studied individually, but by general topic. I was disappointed that there's not one single female billionaire in the whole book. Also- some passages can be seen as sexist, for example when he talks about how important it is to have a supportive WIFE - who will take care of the kids, etc. It would have been cool to have at least one female perspective and one African-American or black perspective. It just seemed like a lot of old white men- which as a younger female was frustrating. I really loved the book as a whole, though !

Rafael Badziag has done a great job interviewing top billionaire business men in the world.And condensing their knowledge, Mindset and way of doing business and life. This is pure gold. I would say many timers better then Think and grow rich as it is more practical you can apply right after reading the book. Its like have 20+ Billionaires as your personal mentor. Highly recommended for anyone who aspires to do big things in business and this beautiful world. Again thanks to all those billionaires for taking the time and sharing thier knowledge, mindset and way of doing business and life, And Rafael Badziag for working on this project for many year diligently for us readers and action takers.

It’s a really neat cool good book if your interested in billionaires, but it doesn’t tell you how to get there explicitly. However my experience and observations have lead me to believe the road to extreme success is a culmination of inputs from various sources, preparation, and lots of hard work.Some of the people in this book describe having sacrificed a lot for the sake of material success. I know we can’t take it with us. We each have to decide what we want out of life. A lot of money is great, I also value having lots of time to do whatever I want. Anyway. I’m not sure how helpful this is towards describing the book.It’s basically a bunch of billionaires telling there condensed life story as it pertains to being a billionaire, and they share there lessons learned and tell us what they would want someone to tell them if they were in our shoes.I recommend MJ DeMarco’s books for a more practical understanding of how to get extreme success, ok maybe not billionaire success, but actually billionaire success is really list about scaling up magnitude and quantity.Money doesn’t make you happy, it just makes you more of what you already are, so don’t be a Richard.