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by sidewndr46 763 days ago
Isn't that the plan for virtually anyone that gives business advice? Jordan Belfort has likely made more with paid appearances than he ever made in the stock market.

There's some guy on YouTube I watched who does gold mining by hand on property you can either buy or lease. There's apparently still tiny amounts of gold near the surface in high enough purity for it to be possible. He does in fact extract and sell small amounts of gold. I imagine his book he wrote about doing this makes him more money than he ever could make mining gold.

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If Books Could Kill is a decent podcast that covers a few of the worst examples of book grifts.