10 Ways to Wealth

With luck to big money

All gamblers dream of winning millions in the lottery, cracking the casino in Monte Carlo or hitting the slot machine jackpot in Las Vegas. But one thing should always be taken to heart: when gambling, you should never bet more than you can easily cope with in the event of a loss. Because only very few people win at gambling. After all, that's why it's called "gambling".

Wealth through entrepreneurship

As our parents always said: nothing comes from nothing. And indeed: work can make you rich! However, you need an unbeatable business idea, a lot of stamina and ideally financially strong investors. Once your own start-up is running promisingly, you live off the current income or you sell the company. Admittedly, this is a time-consuming and exhausting way to get rich. However, this is the only way you have success in your own hands.

With inventive talent to a millionaire

"Invent something you need as much as toilet paper, and wealth will come naturally." That doesn't sound so difficult - but only very few find a real gap in the market. For billion-dollar inventions, the IT industry is the best place to go at the moment. It doesn't have to be the next Facebook or Google. Sometimes a bizarre idea is enough: the inventor of Santa Mail became a millionaire by delivering people mail from Santa Claus.

The "swap-your-rich" principle

A paper clip can become the cornerstone to your own dream home. Just do it like Kyle MacDonald: he traded a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen. He traded the pen for a handmade doorknob. The doorknob became a grill, the grill became a 100-watt generator, the generator became an instant party. A snowmobile, a two-person road trip, a pickup truck, a record deal, a year's rent, a date with Alice Cooper, a rare Kiss fan item, and a movie reel still lay between Kyle and the newly renovated farmhouse he moved into after a year of bartering.

Wealth through investing

If you make the right investment at the right time, you can make big money without much work. But in all honesty: for more than a few percent return and the big profit, you need a keen nose for business, sufficient start-up capital, a willingness to take risks or simply an outrageous amount of luck. Like Kristoffer Koch: the student once invested a modest 27 dollars in the virtual currency Bitcoins. After a few years, this investment turned into almost 900,000 dollars.

How to collect rich

The hunter-gatherer from prehistoric times is still in all of us. This ancient instinct can bring great wealth: for example, with the hunt for rare autographs or for rare fan articles, records, stamps and coins. Around €18,000 is the value of a particular Beatles autograph. Some records are even worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The most valuable coin in the world, the Liberty Dollar from 1794, is worth about $8 million. A stamp made a retired couple from Dresden rich: they owned the misprint of an antique 1-cent stamp. Estimated value: 2.5 million dollars.

Family ties worth millions

Rich parents, a millionaire uncle or a well-off spouse? That is a dream for many people. If you don't have this luck, you have to think of something to change that. How about being adopted by a rich family? Like former DSDS star Daniel KŸbelbšck, for example, who was adopted by a 70-year-old millionaire. Even more successful was Prince Marcus von Anhalt - adopted son of FrŽdŽric von Anhalt, who however wants to dissolve the adoption after Prince Marcus' tax evasion.

Making millions with art

That people like to associate artists with the hunger cloth is actually surprising. After all, great artistic talent can also bring great wealth. You also need a feel for the zeitgeist and the will to market yourself accordingly. That's how composer Andrew Lloyd Webber became a lord and made a whopping 1.2 billion dollars - actor Jerry Seinfeld made 820 million dollars. Well, he is a writer, after all. Just like Joanne K. Rowling, whose annual income is estimated at around 300 million dollars thanks to "Harry Potter".

YouTube millionaires - with big speeches to success

If you can talk, you can be a politician. Or he becomes a YouTube millionaire. The latter involves significantly less work. You don't even need film equipment. Just get on your phone, regularly shoot the most polarizing home video possible in mediocre to borderline low quality, and bag the millions. Sometimes that works. One YouTuber with the nickname Pewdiepie made great wealth from videos about video games. Others got rich with women's hands unwrapping toys, or with parodies of Disney cartoons, or with coaching videos in which they give others valuable tips on how to get rich big. And getting rich doing it themselves.

The creation of a millionaire state

Earning wealth, getting married, collecting, gambling, inventing, talking - all that is far too ordinary for you? Then try something a little more imaginative: create your own state and lure the millionaires of the world with low tax rates that you collect yourself. All you need is a patch of land that no one has ever claimed ownership of. Good luck discovering it! A little tip: make sure you don't run into any hostile tribes in the middle of nowhere that could get in the way of your state foundation.