I credit reading "The Art of the Deal", which anon blessed anons with audiobook of (LB) >>4464264 (LB), with lighting fire in my belly/mind to ''THINK BIG and build a Real Estate "empire" of my own. Going just from memory, I think his line was "You're going to be thinking anyway… why not THINK BIG!?"'

Went on to go from a 22-year-old who'd saved like $2,000 (in 1994) to owning over 50 free-standing houses, 16 apartments and office building a decade later at age 32. Still wasn't quite a millionaire because I used every creative form of debt imaginable to get there ($160K was in CREDIT CARDS), and my area is one in which $20K houses can be bought all day long, so even 5 of those FREE & CLEAR would only make anon worth $100K.

Millionaire on paper by age 36 (2008)… for about 5 minutes, KEK. 2008 market collapsed. Owning 30% equity on properties collectively (70% debt) isn't so great when they lose 50% of their value across the board in a few months. Humble, po' anon now. In many ways, better anon for it.

Anyway, Book GOOD!

Highest-Level Manipulated Markets, BAD!