Cliff Notes on Achieving Wealth

Here are the cliff notes with some additions: While health, relationships and happiness are definitely more important than wealth, they are not wealth, in the material, literal sense. T he definition of "wealth" is money that you don't need for your own needs. Hence a penny that you don't need is a penny of wealth, just like $100 or $1M that you don't need, is that amount of wealth. Whether it's $1, $100 or $1,000,000, it is qualitatively the same thing. Money that you don't need. On the one hand, Hashem guarantees us that we'll always have what we need to live. On the other hand, we are not entitled to wealth. Getting excited or anxious about amassing wealth is futile, as it's not really for you anyways. Your entire life savings might just be destined to support your wife's future husband, stepchild, or your enemy! Torah doesn't share any magic tricks to make a successful business, but it does advise us how to a