A thousand ways to succeed

'A thousand ways to make $1000.' As book titles go, it doesn't sound very impressive that someone should buy a book to try and earn such a trivial amount. However, the book was published in the US in 1900, and its target audience was the young man who had just started in life and did not know how to earn money. It was written by an author F C Minaker, who seems to have no details available about him on the internet now. Today, for anyone interested in investing, the book's chief claim to fame is that Warren Buffett read it as a small child of seven! Growing up in his hometown, young Buffett was captivated by topics related to numbers and finances. "Very early, probably when I was seven or so, I took this book out of the Benson Library called 'One Thousand Ways to Make $1,000,'" he recalled in HBO's 2017 documentary, "Becoming Warren Buffett." The child Warren not only read it but practically memorised it. The introdu