Bread and Chocolate Some of the people with whom you are already ac-quainted have a net worth in excess of a million dollars,lawfully acquired without benefit of gift, inheritance ormarriage. These people were your school chums or neigh-bors or colleagues or friends or professional consultants orfellow club members. They are no more intelligent thanyou. They are no more competent. They are no more de- serving. Why are these people and thousands of other wealthy individuals who have amassed their own private fortunes, and their families, enjoying the best that money can buy, while you and your family are making do and doing without? Is there a magic to acquiring and keeping big money and, if so, how can you benefit from it? There is a magic to putting together vast wealth and how to become an adept practitioner of this magic is the subject of this book. However, The Magic of Thinking Rich is not intended for every random reader who happens to pick it up. My objective in writing The Magic of Thinking Rich is to reach perhaps the one reader in ten who is initially attracted to its subject matter, those for whom the acquisi- tion of great personal wealth is a passion, not a passingfancy9