An amazing read. It turns out you don't need to be a genius to get fabulously wealthy. You only need to make one of these basic wealth secrets work for you. Wilkin's deep research studying Indian billionaires, American magnates, Russian oligarchs, Mexican tycoons, Roman generals and assorted others of the mega-rich lead Wilkin to identify their wealth secrets. Get on to one of those and you too can light your cigars with $100 bills ... Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, Booth School of Business, the University of Chicago If you want to become ultra-rich, this book is for you. Sam Wilkin combs history for a provocative and well-written account of the secrets of wealth formation. Just reading this book will make you richer. Darrell M. West, Vice President of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and author of Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust Illuminating [and] eye-opening... sure to make libertarian heads explode' Kirkus reviews

Sam Wilkin is Head of Business Research at Oxford Economics, one of the world's foremost global forecasting and research consultancies. He is a frequent speaker on current affairs, the global economic outlook, emerging markets, and geopolitics. His speaking engagements in the past few years have taken him to Munich, Kitzbuhel, Barcelona, San Francisco, Dublin and London, with speaking clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to international conferences around the world. Sam is co-author of Risk Rules: How Local Politics Threatens the Global Economy (Agate, 2011). He divides his time between New York and Oxford.