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The Wealth Money My Favourite Anton Rupert

Can’t Buy Mistake The Life of a Business Icon
By Robin Sharma By Marian Keyes By Ebbe Dommisse

‘This book is about a completely new Anna has just lost her taste for the The extraordinary life of tycoon and
philosophy and methodology of success Big Apple… Anna has a life to envy. An philanthropist Dr Anton Rupert is told
and wealth that we are not schooled, apartment in New York. A well-meaning in full in this updated version of the top
trained or even encouraged to consider. But (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high- selling biography.
one that will bring us sustained happiness, flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want
personal freedom and lasting internal all that? Anna, it turns out. This is the story of a Karoo boy who grew
peace.’ – Robin Sharma up during the Depression, struggled to find
Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major money to study science, and then made
In a world fixated on the conventional life event, she bins the lot, heads back to good as a businessman, spectacularly
notion of success – marked by relentless Ireland, and gets a PR job for a super-high- so, reaching the Forbes list of the 500
hustle, sacrificing wellbeing and missing end coastal retreat. Tougher than it sounds. wealthiest people worldwide.
out on cherished moments with loved
ones in the pursuit of fame and material Newsflash: the locals hate it. So much so, Unlike Harry Oppenheimer, Rupert was
possessions – Robin Sharma introduces a there have been threats – and violence. no heir, neither did he make his millions
paradigm shift. In The Wealth Money Can’t from mining. His Rembrandt Group of
Buy, Sharma rewires our perception of Anna, however, worked in the beauty manufacturers became known across the
wealth to include not just financial success, industry. There’s no ugliness she hasn’t globe, owning brands like Cartier, Dunhill,
but seven other essential forms of wealth seen. No wrinkle she can’t smooth over. Rothmans and Montblanc. Within a few
too: Growth, Wellness, Family, Craft, Anna’s got this. Until she discovers that decades, a family dynasty was built, making
Community, Adventure, Service. leaving New York doesn’t mean escaping the Ruperts, next to the Oppenheimers,
her mistakes. the richest family in Africa.
Filled with powerful life lessons and
practical tools, The Wealth Money Can’t Once upon a time she’d had a best friend. This compelling book, based on extensive
Buy will help you to stop chasing the Once upon a time she’d loved a man. Now research, does justice to a South African
wrong kinds of riches and set you on a she has neither. And now she has to face icon whose life contains invaluable
transformative path towards a truly rich them. We all make mistakes. But when do business lessons. Anton Rupert’s insights
and abundant life filled with joy, peace and we stop making the same one over and into job and wealth creation are today
freedom. over again? more relevant than ever.

Price: R405.00 Price: R385.00 Price: R405.00

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