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  • Written by: Richard Watts
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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Fables of Fortune: What Rich People Have That You Don't Want

Written by: Richard Watts
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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Imagine private jets ready for an afternoon flight to New York City for a transcontinental shopping trip...luxury yachts circling the globe awaiting their owner's arrival...fully staffed but rarely visited vacation homes throughout the world. The rich live trouble-free lives of graceful ease. Or do they?   

In Fables of Fortune, author Richard Watts pulls back the brocade curtain to reveal the precarious path of wanting more. As an advisor to the super-rich, Watts reflects on the reality of wealth and a difficult and heartbreaking lesson: "The wealthiest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least."   

Through vignettes based on true stories, Fables of Fortune reveals the challenges the super-wealthy face, including marriages based on net worth, interfamily inheritance battles, faux friends, entitled children, alienation, and spiritual depletion. It also challenges listeners to reconsider key life questions of personal value - and discover surprising new answers.

©2012 Richard Watts (P)2018 Richard Watts

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Very intriguing anecdote on the lives of the rich

If you're looking for a quick read that'll bring you down from to reality, this is an excellent book. It makes you appreciate your life and well being at a much greater level. The wealthy have their own set of issues and it's not always as glamorous as we think. I recommend!

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