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The Peebles Principles
Ebony, Sept, 2007
In THE PEEBLES PRINCIPLES (Wiley, $24.95), R. Donahue Peebles, chief executive officer of the largest Black-owned real estate development firm in the nation, essentially tells readers how to get rich--fast. "I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth," he writes in the prologue. "I came from what most people would describe as a middle-class home, an only child in a one-parent household.
But by the time I was 27, I was a multimillionaire, and by the time I was 45 I was worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars. This book is the story of how I created that wealth, beginning with nothing. It is also a book about how to get rich ..." Some tips: "Being lucky means being ready; be a bulldog on details; respond quickly to attacks and be the last man standing."
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