I have to tell you, in all honesty, I felt I was getting richer already just by chatting with Willie and Boyd yesterday. Their insightful and detailed answers to all my questions about precisely how to invest my funds and shelter my income to maximize the net was exactly what I needed -- before I headed to Five Guys for lunch (wait for the weight loss part, it's coming!), I knew I was on the path to the highest tax bracket and would need to look to major corporations for inspiration about how to avoid all that -- and perhaps I was even on my way to being too big to fail!
The premise of the book (well, premise is a bit rich - get it? 'rich') or guiding idea is that Boyd and Willie received a letter promising wealth and fortune from the "Dollar Bills" -- otherwise known as Bill Richter and Bill Lachey. Their promises centered upon the need to project the right image in order to get rich -- one has to have the right car, the right clothes, the right drink, etc. In other words, so long as you live the right lifestyle of being rich, wealth will follow. After all, it worked for the Pilgrims -- our authors point out how much better dressed the Pilgrims were than the Native Americans they encountered (who couldn't even afford real hats!), and of course living in Crate & Barrel style homes, how oculd they not succeed. (However, I must take the authors to task here; the Pilgrims were really more a Pottery Barn kind of people, but I digress.)
There are the five C's (and no, I'm not going to tell you what they are -- otherwise, you wouldn't buy the book, and Boyd and Willie wouldn't be able to give me my kickback for trying to get you to buy their book) and five things to avoid, but then there are four other things you should do, and other things to avoid. The book is a veritable checklist of wonderful activities all designed to get you noticed. I particularly like the one where they advise you to go to a Hollywood hotspot and make it rain $100 bills. This is guaranteed to get attention. Oh, and please let me know when you do, as I'd like to be there, just for documentary purposes, of course.
The weight loss portion of the book is equally as effective as the get-rich portion, and that's really saying something. After all, as I said, yesterday's lunch was at Five Guys, a place preferred by President Obama and Brian Williams, and look how thin they are! Yes, the inches were melting off so fast as I drove home from Five Guys that I had to stop the car to readjust my clothing several times. And all from this book.
If you watch Willie Geist's show "Way Too Early" on MSNBC, you might even rate a free book if you send an email inspired enough to be read on the show.
If you think this review might not be all it is cracked up to be, well then, you just haven't read the book -- do so, and you'll understand. But then, if you notice among the five things you should never do on page 114, you'll understand the credibility of my review by realizing that I am, for better or worse, a cat owner.
Enjoy!
