As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

America is not the center of the universe.

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More start-ups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.