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There are useful bits of information in this book - though more so if you live in the US as it's geared towards that country in terms of tax etc. However, three things really ground my gears:

1. Robbins ends every other sentence with an exclamation mark.
2. Endless name-dropping 'oh my good friend [famous investor]'.
3. References to things being 'literally' faster than the speed of light. If you've worked out how to do this, the Nobel Prize in Physics awaits.

If you like Robbins' writing style, you'll probably love this book. For me, it was a bit grating and that knocked at least one star off.

Didn't finish this, the first few chapters (and the rest from a quick skim ahead) are about Gates' childhood, which isn't very interesting (middle-class, well-educated, no adversity really). The last chapter just about starts to cover Microsoft, but isn't enough to make reading the whole book worthwhile.

The general points in this book are interesting, but let down somewhat by a US bias (e.g. that health insurance problems can't be solved because of selection, even though sensible countries have universal state-provided cover funded by taxation).