A very interesting article written in 1995(that's 12 years ago) on one of Britain's richest men, Felix Dennis.

P.S. Page 5-and-a-half onwards seems to be a totally unrelated article caused by faulty programming. So there. Like you're gonna read it anyway ~_~

He made his millions in namely 2 things: Publishing computer magazines at the right time, and Micro Warehouse ($2billion, NASDAQ listed).

He aims to spend a few hours of every day writing poetry.

My father bought his book, How to Get Rich. Normally I would never touch such a book, but this guy was formally a hippie, who made a rags to riches story come true, in true blue 1970s style.

As you might have guessed the 1970s in Britain and USA interest me greatly. Many great bands (Led Zeppelin, The Who are my favourites) composed many timeless songs that fascinated me so much. So I thought it was pretty interesting to read the writings of a person who made it rich in the 1970s.

So this guy who sang a duet with John Lennon for charity (how many can make that claim? I dunno what song tho), who once was jailed for obscenity charges in a magazine, of which he was given a less severe sentence than by the judge for being 'less intelligent' than his fellow accused, is rich.

So what?

It's just so interesting to read such a character, especially from his own writing. He doesn't go into graphs or statistics or stuff like that. He simply assumes you are gonna be able to process those figures yourself, and gets on with what and how he made it. It reads pretty much like an informal book. The way he writes is pretty straightforward, doesn't make any pretensions except for the poetry quotes, but perhaps poetry is simply not my taste.

Basically it contains a few pointers on lessons he learnt while getting rich, but I like the small links it contains to the 1970s culture. Richard Branson is also another one(more connected, as he once owned Virgin Records), but I might never ever start reading about him.

So there.