Book: The Ten Roads to Riches (Affiliate link)
Rank: 10/10
Summary : here

Review (7/10)

I found the book The Ten Roads to Riches (Affiliate link) very digestive – written in very simple terms with a few jokes here and there – and with very attractive features; For one, the preface opens the mind of the reader for the rest of book and explains questions that arise immediately when we read the title (why ten roads – not more – and what are they?). Second, it is modular – each chapter pertains to a given road and you can skip it if you’re not interested in that particular road. Third, I like how Ken Fisher structures and categorizes concepts and ideas, as I often do that myself. An example of this is that Fisher picks up examples and frames them into specific chapters (aka roads). All the sub sections make sense to me. Things are structured well. Plus, many things are backed up with references, clearly my style too.

As for the content, it is clearly a different book (not a book preaching save + invest = retire). I would say that I learned less from this book than from others, but it shows you, in a very pragmatic way, ten roads you can travel to become rich. Fisher advises that some roads may sound ludicrous to some, and if they do to you, then you better skip the chapter and move on. For me, getting rich by becoming famous or marrying a rich spouse is certainly not a road I would go down. It does not mean it makes no sense to other people, maybe it does. I wanted to bad to skip one or two chapters, but out of respect for my readers, I read them through. Some chapters provide really good content, but for an expert, or someone who read a lot of books like me, it is too “high level”, meaning not enough details or too generic.

The first time I read this book it seemed that I learned much more than this second time around. Maybe I knew less, or maybe it was more appropriate due to the books I had read before. If you are planning on reading many books, I definitely recommend you to read this book right after Rich Dad Poor Dad (Affiliate link) and The Millionaire Next Door (Affiliate link), if not even before, and above all, when you are young. It will pragmatically show you ways to become rich, but you can only work towards them if you have enough time ahead of you.

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