Not one share do you hand over.

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From The Narrow Road by Felix Dennis. Copyright [C]2010 by the author. Published by Portfolio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. (www.penguin.com).

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To BECOME RICH you must be an owner. And you must try to own it all. You must strive with every fiber of your being to retain control of as near to 100 percent of any company you can. That is the dirty, rotten little secret of it all.

To become rich, every single percentage point of anything you own is crucial. It is worth fighting for. It is worth suing for. It is worth shouting and banging on the table for. It is worth begging for and groveling for. It is worth lying and cheating for. In extremis, it is even worth negotiating for.

Never hand over a single share of anything you have acquired or created if you can help it. Not one share, no matter what the reason--not for loyalty, not for fairness, not as an incentive--unless...

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