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What is wealth? It is a question all of us need to ask ourselves every so often. If not, we lose track of where we are heading and where we’ve been.

As you’re reading this, I am nowhere near my computer. In fact, I’m not even in the office today. I spent the last three days increasing my “wealth.”

Based off the last news reports, without Steve Jobs, the multi-billion-dollar enterprise that is Apple (NYSE: AAPL) would simply cease to exist. Every new report of his health is followed in the market, and Apple’s stock price takes corresponding hikes and plunges.

When those of us on The Oxford Club’s Fall Foliage Tour – aboard the Crystal Symphony – reached Bar Harbor, Maine last week, the bright colors came to an abrupt end. At least, temporarily.

The weather was so nasty – and the water so rough – the tenders couldn’t take us ashore. It was just a cold, grey, wet, rainy day. The perfect day for a book, in other words.

So I spent the afternoon perusing money manager Ken Fisher’s new book “The 10 Roads to Riches.”

According to Fisher, a member of the Forbes 400, there are only 10 ways to get rich. (This is after discounting things you can’t control like a lottery win or a big inheritance.)

10 Roads to Riches

Here are…

When Philip Harris, now Lord / Baron Harris of Peckham, set up his first Carpetright on the Manor road, Canning town in 1988 he can’t have imagined it would all come to this.