Yeah, ok, reading books about how other people made money, or to be more specific, how they say that they made money is one thing, but nothing beats real life experience. You want to know how to make money? Don't look for a specific method. It there was everyone would use it. Get out there and try things, learn things.
Very rightly said mate, there is no formula to get rich, if there would be a formula then everyone of us would be rich, its better that you focus on skills that you have and move ahead with it, if you have some skills that no one else has then you will get rich in a quick time.
There are many examples of billionaires that gave up school, studies and focused on life. Not one guy, or two, or ten, lots. What do they have in common? They got out there and just started to do things. Yeah it's a risk, but what isn't? There is a risk that you step in a wrong way in the morning when you get out of bed an die. Studying is good but up to a point. Then you have to practice what you've learned.
Exactly, practice makes men perfect, and I have seen many people who have studied a lot but still are struggling to find a good job, so even if you don't hold a degree that doesn't mean that you cannot earn money or get rich, it totally depends on individual how he see things around him.
I don't ever treat those books as manuals or formulas on how to get rich. Nor do the authors themselves. They do tell stories about how people got their millions, they do talk about different strategies, but they treat them as successful examples, and the main thing they talk about is the mindset, which is very important and not limiting in any way at all.
Thinking about them as "here is the step-by-step guide and this is the only way" is wrong and is a limitation that they do not offer. I do agree with you that there are infinite ways to reach wealthy and it only depends on oneself.
Now also saying that studying is not the ideal way, based on hearing of many people who got there by going 100% on practice is not a formula either. First because "study" is just way too broad, and there are effective and non effective studies, practical and non practical studies, etc. Second because even practicing can be taken as a study by how learning prone one is, and the way one analyses the results of his/her decisions.
Well, in any case that was my recommendation, and I don't disagree with any others. It all usually comes down to knowledge, hard and smart work