Secrets of the Wealth Game: What They Hoped You'd Never Find Out: What They Hoped You'd Never Find Out

By Eric L. Stevens J.D.

From the inception of the industrial revolution into our present “nano technology” information age, Wealth and those who have it, continue to proliferate. Ever consider why during our early schools years and later in college we are taught how to be capable employees, but not business owners and wealthy? Calculated design or just an oversight? Is there a “Wealth Game” in progress about which you never received the memo? Many coming into large sums of money, either through hard work, inheritance, or even “instant millionaires” who’ve won hundreds of millions with a lottery ticket, have been unable to keep their earnings; and in the latter’s case, remain a “millionaire.”
Why not?
And, would their new, millionaire status really mean they were actually “wealthy?” Why is “wealth” obtained and sustained by some, while, obtained and dwindled away by others?
Are there Secrets?
How do you change from wanting to be “rich,” to desiring to become “truly wealthy?” Is there a difference? What’s the Secret? How do you get wealth? How do you hold on to more of what you earn on your way to wealth? What’s the Secret?
“Secrets Of The Wealth Game: What They Hoped You’d Never Find Out,” takes you behind the scenes and into the world of wealth and reveals the secrets of how the “Founding Financial Fathers” in this country obtained and have sustained their wealth through multiple generations. “Secrets Of The Wealth Game” makes their secrets your secrets; reveals their strategies and the financial tools that will enable you to track their footprints to financial success, wealth protection and the ability to sustain both.
“to acquire is nothing, to keep is everything” --- The Zurich Group, LLC

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781664130845

Eric L. Stevens J.D.

Eric Stevens currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for The Zurich Group, LLC, a wealth protection and personal privacy consulting firm in Manhattan Beach, California. He has counseled hundreds of new and existing businesses as a corporate Business Consultant for the Small Business Development Center a contractor under the auspices of the Small Business Administration. Dr. Stevens earned both a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, with emphasis in Computer Information Systems, and a Doctorate of Law. While both a tenured and adjunct Professor of Business, Law and Statistics, Eric is a frequent lecturer at several colleges and universities. His corporate career spans over twenty years with Fortune 100 and 500 companies in the computer technology field as a Systems Engineer with IBM Corporation and in the entertainment industry in Corporate Legal for The Walt Disney Company. His legal career has placed him on the litigation teams for numerous high-profile celebrity clients. Dr. Stevens is a dynamic, prolific motivational and informative speaker. He is a regular seminar presenter and can be contacted for speaking engagements.

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Dedications

T o my father, Reverend Dr. George Luther Stevens, M.Ed., D.Div., Councilman, Deputy Mayor, Minister—Father. He was a man among men—a leader among leaders, a self-described social worker and do-gooder. It is his legacy of faith and instilling in me the belief that with God’s help and by working smart, I could grow, achieve and explore the possibilities of life without fear and to strive without belief in failure. It is to him I say, Thank you and express my appreciation for the enriched and indelible impact his life has left on my life and the lives of thousands of individuals who knew him as their advocate and champion. For the few of us that loved and knew him as mentor and faithful friend—He remains in our hearts.

Acknowledgements

Mom—You have been my continual encouragement and support—I cherish you and our friendship.

Michelle and Marcus—you have kept me in touch with the importance of family.

Gary—You have tremendous talent and creativity.

Hali, Marcus, Jr., Imani, and Kila Margaret—each of you are our future—you have had great role models—we look to each of you to make great achievements in the world—it’s in you!

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While all attempts have been made to verify information provided in this publication, neither the Author nor the Publisher assumes any responsibility for errors, omissions, or contrary interpretation of the subject matter herein. This publication is not intended for use as a source of legal, business, career or psychological advice. The Author and the Publisher assumes no responsibility for any injuries suffered or damages or losses incurred during or as a result of following this information. All information should be carefully studied, researched independently, and clearly understood before taking any action based on the information or advice in this book. All users are advised to retain competent counsel to determine if the information contained herein is appropriate for them. The Author and Publisher assume no responsibility or liability whatsoever on the behalf of any Purchaser or Reader of these materials. The Purchaser or Reader of this publication assumes full responsibility for the use of these materials and information. Any perceived slights of specific people or organizations are unintentional.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

• Why this book was written

CHAPTER 1

A History of the Wealth Game: The Billionaire Boy’s Club

CHAPTER 2

There’s A Game In Progress

CHAPTER 3

Why Do The Rich Get Richer, While The Poor Get Poorer?

CHAPTER 4

Rules Of The Game

CHAPTER 5

Tools Of The Game

CHAPTER 6

How The Wealth Is Won!

CHAPTER 7

Who’s Keeping Score?

CHAPTER 8

Conquering in the Corporate Arena (or, So, You Don’t Want To Fly Solo?)

CHAPTER 9

Who’s On First, What’s On Second, and What Happens, When You Head For Home ?

CHAPTER 10

Game Over—Famous Last Words

AFTER WORD

Dr. Minnie Claiborne

Introduction

"Through The Valley Of The

Shadow Of Wealth"

T he majority of people in this country, even the most educated and intelligent, are unaware of the significant financial benefits and importance of legally protecting themselves from the attacks of frivolous lawsuits and payment of unnecessary taxation beyond legal requirements. Further, we are generally unaware of the estate planning, trusts, business entities, insurance and many other financial vehicles which are readily at their disposal at relatively minimal costs.

This book will dispel the myth that every person of significant wealth in the history of the United States was somehow born with an inherent wealth gene, producing the acumen for wealth accumulation and sustainability. It will rather reveal that most became wealthy through the deliberate process of being mentored by wealthy parents and/or generations of the same, who left wealth and hand-held their posterity over the peaks and through the valleys of the shadow of wealth.

My aim is to educate, encourage and incite you to utilize the same tools which the wealthy have historically used for wealth accumulation and maintenance.

I seek to inform the uninformed that in this country, we live under a government and within an economic system that favors corporations and business, over the individual.

As such, State and Federal legislation is created and executed which adversely impacts the common citizens, while corporate citizens go unscathed. In response, the common citizens must utilize the tools of their corporate counterpart to level the playing field—and what they do, they must—do quickly. As the masses learn the tools, rules and techniques of the few; the few will begin to change the rules to maintain a hierarchy of the financially elite and a cavernous demarcation between the Haves and the Have-nots. Why else would the tools to accumulate and maintain wealth have not been passed on to the masses as a normal course of life?

It is our belief that every individual should own a company. Our country, its economy and education system, were engineered to satisfy the insatiable demand of businesses. The majority of the population is indoctrinated to become well entrenched in the roles of worker/laborer/employee; and that throughout their working existence and that of their progeny, they should remain as such. Without laborers who believe they can only get ahead by securing a good paying job which will pay them sufficient to survive, though never providing access or opportunity to receive the Lion’s share of profits, as company owner, our current economy would buckle at the knees.

Those in this country who are unaware of this indoctrination or engineering, will remain indentured and sub-servient to a master who is always in need of their blood and sweat to manufacture their Dodge in Detroit or Mustang in Michigan—well, at least, that is, until a lesser cost/greater efficiency, substitute is found, and out-sourced overseas.

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Chapter 1

A History of the Wealth

Game: "The Billionaire Boy’s

Club"

Like the invention of fire, the wealth game wasn’t a premeditated plan, but rather, a resulting evolution fueled by passion, experimentation, necessity, an equal thirst for power and a sufficient portion of greed, whose time had come—Anonymous

T o fully understand a thing, its etymology, its genesis of creation or origin, you are required to journey to its initial beginnings as your foundational starting point. You must address the " Why about a subject before you can really understand, appreciate or even, in some cases, properly utilize or benefit from the What" about a thing. In other words, if you don’t understand why a thing was created (i.e., it’s purposes and reasons for existence), it will be very difficult to understand it’s present purpose or benefit, or how it can be used and applied to our present situation or circumstances. If you don’t understand the purpose or benefit of a thing, you will abuse it or worse still, it will abuse you.

In order to understand the Secrets of the Wealth Game, we can only benefit if first we understand why and how the Wealth Game began and that there is, in fact, a Wealth Game presently in affect. Secondly, we, of necessity, must understand that there are secrets associated with the Wealth Game. Since they have been kept secret as a whole, if we can uncover them and then use them to our advantage, we can become successful in our quest to gain, grow and maintain personal, as well as generational wealth.

The Wealth Game in this country began with a small group of individuals from varying economic, social, educational and ethnic backgrounds. Some were born into means, others had parents who struggled, even to come to this country. Some successfully attained higher education, others dropped out before completing high school. Their examples of proper up bringing by parents varied as much as where they were from. They were a group of men who set in motion, a chain of events that would forever change the course of how this country would operate as a society and how individuals would live their personal lives. That impact reverberates even to this day. These men were the catalysts of a new era. Their contributions radically mutated the lives of this nation and brought about drastic changes to our society and culture. The entire nation felt the effects of their advancements, not merely in the area of industrialization and manufacturing, but in their direct impact on the individual lives of citizens throughout this country.

Prior to this revolution, our nation was predominately comprised of farmers, sharecroppers, indentured servants and newly freed men. The introduction of the industrial revolution morphed the producers of our crops, live stock and agriculture. These were free-spirited entrepreneurs. They were their own bosses, masters of their own destinies! But with industrialization, came the drive for money, fame and power, creating an industry and industrial machine capable of providing an addictive enticement. This seduced self-sufficient men and women and sadly, transformed them into persons willing to give-up hard work and the risk of failed crops, for the false sense of security of a regular pay check from the local factory.

It converted free-thinking entrepreneurs into a labor force of the masses. The farmers and the like were no longer the employers, they were now relegated to being the factory employees. They exchanged their land ownership (in some cases), complete autonomy and the possibility of limitless eventual earnings through expansion and development of their own businesses, for the belief of a risk-free, factory job and "a day’s pay for a day’s labor."

Hence, it is as true today as it was then. We no longer control our own destinies, nor play by our own rules. We have succumbed to the rules of a now old and foreign financial and economic system—a system that no one took the time to explain, nor believed it was beneficial to inform the naïve. Failing to do so, left us flailing to sink or swim for ourselves in a new economy where we are merely pawns in a game we generally know little or nothing about and even less about how to succeed at it.

Those transforming fellows of the Industrial Revolution are our case studies on how this new order evolved, because it is these gentlemen who began the industrial revolution and the evolution of the Wealth Game; they invented the rules of the game, determining how it was to be played for hundreds of years to come—even to this day.

These were the super-wealthy of their day and ours. These were the men who were the first in a class of financial over-achievers. These elitists were a group of billionaires. These were the fledgling founders and freshmen members of the Billionaire Boy’s Club.

Success Leaves Footprints

To understand how one arrived at any point in their lives whether having reached success or otherwise, we need only start where they began, read the tracks that were left behind and follow them. These men left clear and distinct markings along their trails, that if examined carefully, can directly lead us to patterns of personal characteristics to embrace or dismiss, rules and guidance to follow, tools for building wealth and strategies for business success. The lives of these men must be dissected into components that will enable us to analyze and follow their tracks. By doing so, we can observe their commonalities and patterns. Any uniform made for any team begins with a pattern—a template which is simply copied over and over again. The result is that you successfully recreate that which you believed represents the best elements of what you desired in look, feel, shape, and size of the original.

The elements we will use to construct a pattern from