I
T’S NOT AN EASY OR A QUICK PROCESS, to become wealthy.
Actually, it takes a lot of discipline and hard work. However,
recent history has shown us that becoming wealthy can
indeed happen overnight. Over the past few years, we’ve seen
many people strike it rich through the stock market. Internet
stocks, IPOs, and stock options—it seemed that everywhere we
looked there was someone else, and usually a young someone else,
who had just suddenly become worth millions of dollars. Every week
or so there was another initial public offering of a company whose
stock price would soar into the range of hundreds of dollars. People
were quitting their jobs to become day traders, all in the name of
money and riches.
But counting on the stock market to make you a lot of money
very quickly is not only risky, it’s also highly unlikely, especially