Felix Dennis

British publishing magnate who built Dennis Publishing into a major media company (Maxim, The Week, MacUser) from nothing — and who wrote How to Get Rich — a brutally honest account of what wealth-building actually requires (sacrifice, obsession, giving up everything else) and what wealth is actually worth (less than you think).

Wrote the most honest popular account of what wealth accumulation requires and costs — How to Get Rich refuses the motivational framing of most wealth books and instead says directly: if you want to get rich you must be willing to be obsessive, ruthless about focus, and give up most of what makes life pleasant — and when you have the money, it may not make you happy.