Wealth Secrets of the One Percent by Sam Wilkin audiobook

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich

By Sam Wilkin
Introduction read by Sam Wilkin
Read by Joe Barrett

Little, Brown & Company 9780316378932

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 2 Formats: CD
  • 2 Formats: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9781478934318

  • ISBN: 9781478934288

Runtime: 12.82 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Business & Economics
Audience: Adult
Language: English
Sign In For Price

Summary

Summary

A New York Times Editor’s Choice

Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!)

From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors.

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent gets at the heart of our feelings about the 1% of top income earners and the roughly 0.0001% who achieve billionaire status: we love to hate them, but we'd love to be them. Wilkin's insight into the sources of wealth is thought-provoking and rigorous, and he reveals that behind almost every great fortune is a "wealth secret" -- a moneymaking technique designed to defeat the forces of market competition.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“[Wilkins] shows he can pick apart the working of an actual modern company and come up with something like true insight.” —New York Times Book Review
“Sam Wilkin combs history for a provocative and well-written account of the secrets of wealth formation. Just reading this book will make you richer.” —Darrell M. West, author of Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust
“An amazing read…Get on to one of those [secrets] and you too can light your cigars with hundred dollar bills.” —Marvin Zonis, professor emeritus, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
“Want to become ‘obscenely’ rich, as the subtitle of this illuminating book has it? Well, the best bet is to be born that way. The next best bet is to have a ‘wealth secret,’ the better-mousetrap sine qua non for building an empire. Economic forecaster Wilkin, head of business research at Oxford Economics, has good fun looking at how some fabulously rich people got to be that way…Eye-opening and sure to make libertarian heads explode.” —Kirkus Reviews
Want to become "obscenely" rich, as the subtitle of this illuminating book has it? Well, the best bet is to be born that way. The next best bet is to have a "wealth secret," the better-mousetrap sine qua non for building an empire. Economic forecaster Wilkin, head of business research at Oxford Economics, has good fun looking at how some fabulously rich people got to be that way.... Eye-opening. —Kirkus Reviews
Wilkin is a knowledgeable guide to the world's greatest fortunes.... Thoughtful, playful prose. —Bryan Burrough, New York Times Book Review
An amazing read... Get on to one of those [secrets] and you too can light your cigars with $100 bills.. —Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Sam Wilkin combs history for a provocative and well-written account of the secrets of wealth formation. Just reading this book will make you richer. —Darrell M. West, Vice President of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust
So how do our billionaires make their billions? Business analyst Sam Wilkin offers up the real scoop.... Delicious and insight-packed. —Sam Pizzigati, Too Much
Clever, entertaining.... Rich and poor will enjoy it equally, and if you have a modest entourage, I would consider getting copies for them too. —Marcus Berkmann, Daily Mail (UK)
Pay attention.... What makes this book different is Sam Wilkin is an inside man. —Joe Shute, The Telegraph (UK)
A "highly entertaining and useful guide to the 'fascinating economic puzzle waiting to be solved' behind every billion-dollar fortune.... If you too would like to get your hands on today's equivalent of 250,000lb of fattened goose meat, Wilkin's book is a brilliant place to start. —Julia Richardson, Daily Mail (UK)
This is at heart a theoretical book, not an historical one. Its merit lies not in the stories it tells, but in the connections it draws between them. —Nick Wolven, Washington Independent Review of Books
A great read.... Infused with a great sense of humor. —Life Elsewhere

Reviews

Reviews

Be the first to review this product

Author

Author Bio: Sam Wilkin

Author Bio: Sam Wilkin

Sam Wilkin is the head of business research at Oxford Economics, one of the world’s foremost global forecasting and research consultancies. He received his MA in international relations from the University of Chicago and his BA in economics from Eckerd College. Wilkin was also the 2004 alumni fellow for Eckerd College.

Titles by Author

Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD
Category: Nonfiction/Business & Economics
Runtime: 12.82
Audience: Adult
Language: English

1-800-621-0182

Serving libraries since 1987, Blackstone Library is your one-stop shop for audiobooks. We are dedicated to providing top-quality audio content, offering over 82,500 unabridged titles—with more than 1,000 new releases and 625+ exclusive titles added each month.

©2025 Blackstone Library . All rights reserved. Privacy Terms of Use Purchase Terms Cookie Policy ©2025 Blackstone Library . All rights reserved.