Today I want to tell you about a remarkable group of people.

These are regular men and women—just like you and me—but they’ve all done something spectacular:

Each one of them went from being nearly dead broke to becoming a multi-millionaire—overnight.

How’d they do it?

Well, it turns out, they…

I crack up when I hear that question...

For one thing, while I’m pretty well off, I don’t think of myself as “rich.”

I’ve got a few friends who are “rich.” They’ve got 9 or 10-figures in the bank.

But aside from their high net worth,…

I’m about to leave for my honeymoon!

Next week, my bride and I are flying to Sydney, Australia, then we’ll make our way to Byron Bay and the Great Barrier Reef.

Friends gave us suggestions for hotels, but we think it's more fun to rent cool apartments.

To find these…

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Back in 2001, oil was trading at about $30 per barrel.

At the time, just a single oil company (Exxon) was on the list of the world’s Top 5 Most Valuable Companies.

Within a decade, however, oil shot up to $100 per barrel. All of a sudden, the Top 5…

What if you woke up tomorrow and found $10 million in your bank account?

How about $100 million? How about a billion?

What would you do with all that money?

What’s the most outrageous thing you’d buy?

Give it a think—

Then you can compare it to a few over-the-top…

Once upon a time, start-up investors had to be extremely patient:

After getting in on a “ground floor” investment, they’d need to wait for years and years as the start-up morphed into a real business—the kind of business that could get acquired or go public.

But recently, we’ve become aware…

Last week in Rio, Michael Phelps went out on a high note:

After leading the U.S. swim team to victory in the 400-meter relay—and receiving a record-high 23^rd Olympic gold medal—Phelps hung up his goggles and retired.

Meanwhile, a similar situation was taking place closer to home:

The Dow, the…

Back in 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for about $50 billion.

Yahoo rejected the offer as being “too low.”

Last week, a new deal for Yahoo came in—this time from Verizon.

The deal was worth just $4.6 billion, a fraction of what Microsoft had offered.

When Yahoo accepted it,…

Has anyone ever “borrowed” one of your ideas and used it as their own?

If I’m not mistaken, it just happened to me—and I’m thrilled.

After all, isn’t imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

And since it was JP Morgan doing the imitating—and since the idea it borrowed was about…