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How Individuals, Companies Countries Can Succeed in the 21st Century, from BUILDING WEALTH by Lester C. Thurow Rule one: No one has ever become very rich by saving their money. The rich see opportunities to work and invest in situations where large disequilibriums exist. This was as true for John D. Rockefeller as it is for Bill Gates. In both cases their lifetime savings constitute a small fraction of their total wealth. Carefully saving ones money and investing in normal equilibrium situations can make one comfortable in ones old age but never really wealthy. . ; Rule four: Understanding, recognizing, and accepting the limits imposed by their genetic weaknesses is the beginning of wisdom for all organizations. The secret of success is finding places to employ ones resources where those weaknesses are irrelevant.; Rule five: Humans have discovered how to operate successful capitalist economies in the midst of modest inflation, but not how to operate them in the midst of even mild deflation. Given a choice between the same rate of inflation or deflation, take the inflation every time.;Rule six: There are no institutional substitutes for individual entrepreneurial change agents. The entrepreneur winners of the game become wealthy and powerful, but without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exit; the new cannot enter. ; Rule seven: Any society that values order above all else will not be creative, but without the right degree of order, creativity disappears as if into a black hole. ;Rule eight: The economic payoff from more social investment in basic research is as clear as anything is ever going to be in economics. ;Rule ten: The biggest unknown for the individual in a knowledge-based economy is how to have a career in a system where there are no careers. ;Rule eleven: Only those interested in the future build tools. Whatever they might say, those who build few tools are not interested in the future. ;Rule twelve: Econo