How much money do you want to earn? How big do you want your assets to be? What does wealth mean to you?

The answers to these questions vary from person to person. While €10,000 a month means the world to one person, it could be a very small amount to another. One person dreams of owning a Porsche, while another longs for 1 million euros.

But what exactly does wealth mean now and what does it have to do with books?

While there is no universal definition of wealth and many people stop expanding their knowledge and horizons after graduating from school or university, successful people agree that a person's wealth corresponds to their knowledge and ability to implement it, and that real learning begins after graduation from college or university - that is, when most people stop learning.

An ignorant person who has acquired great wealth in his life does not seem to exist in principle. Wealth is not to be understood here as the temporary financial and material possessions of a lottery winner or a newly rich person who has no idea how to deal with money and assets.

True wealth is obviously only spoken of when the sum of a person's available goods and assets apparently exceed the average level of material well-being in society over decades.

Just as day emerges from night, so true wealth seems to emerge from a person's particular level of knowledge and know-how.

But what might that mean now? Does wealth require a high school degree? Do you have to be a bookworm to acquire a huge fortune and become rich?

The answer to both of these questions is: No, you don't need a high degree, nor do you need to be a bookworm.

Rather, wealth accumulation requires the attitude of being willing to take the necessary steps to build wealth.

So we are talking here more about practice than theory. For theoreticians are for the most part only people who, like philosophers, only read and think. And pure reading and thinking has obviously not made a single person a billionaire to this day, but rather the most humble person who can barely make a living under the most modest circumstances due to his lack of practical orientation.

However, the willingness to take the necessary steps to build wealth does not exclude the acquisition of knowledge through reading books. There are, in fact, a few books here and there that can really catapult an entrepreneur forward in his industry by many years from one day to the next. Reading such books is therefore inevitable and obligatory for every financially aspiring person.

In short, this means that books should only be selected selectively and only serve as support for practice. After all, time is money and reading books can take a lot of time away from an entrepreneur if the reading does not move him forward. Reading should therefore not simply be based on aimless fundamentals if one intends to build a fortune. Because that would definitely not be the right strategy.

My hint:

Simply listen to your selectively chosen books as an audio book via AirPods! This way you can concentrate on other things at the same time and, for example, drinking coffee and taking notes. At the Amazon audiobook provider Audible.com you will definitely quickly find good audiobooks on your topic that will help you progress.

Have fun reading! Uhh, I mean listening.

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