FABLES OF FORTUNE: WHAT RICH PEOPLE HAVE THAT YOU DON’T WANT

Book ID/图书代码： 14936512B54992

English Summary/英文概要： Imagine private jets ready for an afternoon flight to New York City for a transcontinental shopping trip . . . luxury yachts circling the globe awaiting their owner’s arrival . . . fully staffed but rarely visited vacation homes throughout the world. The rich live trouble free lives of graceful ease. Or do they?

In Fables of Fortune, author Richard Watts pulls back the brocade curtain to reveal the precarious path of wanting more. As the advisor to the super rich, Watts reflects on the reality of wealth and a difficult and heartbreaking lesson: "The wealthiest person is not who has the most, but who needs the least."

Fables of Fortune convincingly persuades readers that wealth may be overrated. Through vignettes based on true stories, Watts reveals the challenges the super-wealthy face, including marriages based on net worth, interfamily inheritance battles, faux friends, entitled children, alienation, and spiritual depletion.

The successes and failures of life inspire the heartbeat of passion and self-actualization. Watts will challenge readers to reconsider key life questions of personal value and discover surprising new answers. Fables of Fortune reveals an honest, comparative, eye-opening analysis for any reader who believes wealth is a rose without thorns. Read on and gain perspective and appreciation for your own real fortune in life.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 试想，私人喷气式飞机虚席以待，只为在某个下午载人飞往纽约，完成横跨大陆的购物旅行……豪华游艇畅游世界，只为等待主人的来临……以及遍布全球的、仆从配备齐全但鲜有访客的度假屋。富人们的生活鲜有烦恼，从容优雅。真的是这样的吗？

在《财富寓言》一书中，作者理查德•瓦特扯下了锦锻帷幕，提露了不知足的危险道路。作为超级富豪的顾问，瓦特反映了富有的真相、以及一个困难而令人心碎的教训：“最富有的人不是拥有最多的人，而是需要最少的人。”

《财富寓言》有力地说服了读者，使之相信，我们过高地估算了我们的财富。通过基于真实故事的小插曲，瓦特提示了超级富豪所面临的挑战，包括基于资本净值的婚姻、家族内部的遗产争夺战、虚假的友谊、孩子的资格、疏远以及精神世界贫乏。

人生的成败能激发热情和自我实现的渴望。瓦特将挑战读者，使他们重新思考与个体价值有关的主要人生问题，并发现令人意外的新答案。《财富寓言》向所有坚信财富是无刺玫瑰的读者们展示了一个可靠的、比较的、有启发性的分析。继续读下去，你会重新认识并感念人生真正的财富。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：版权已售: 韩国

About the Author/作者介绍： 理查德•瓦特是家族商务办公（FBO）的创始人和主席，曾于1982年进入加州律师协会从事法律工作，他还是哈佛商学院的校友。FBO是一家法律和咨询公司，管理着美国最富裕的家族以及他们的家族办公企业。理查德的家族靠他来监督家族运营，理查德每天都要和他们一起作出决定。

理查德居于加州拉古纳海滩。他的兴趣爱好十分广泛，包括和妻子黛比及其他家人一起旅游、在圣欧诺菲进行长板冲浪、游泳、在当地山林间滑雪、弹钢琴以及作曲。他有3个令他为之骄傲的儿子，均已成年，分别为：亚伦（妻子是蕾妮）、托德和拉塞尔。2010年，他迎来了他的第一个孙女，麦克莱恩•玛丽，的降生。

理查德极具创造天赋，他将继续创作《财富寓言》系列丛书。理查德常常受邀就该话题向商业、宗教及慈善团体发表演讲。

Richard Watts, the founder and President of Family Business Office ® ("FBO"), was admitted to the California State Bar to practice law in 1982 and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. FBO is a legal and consulting firm that manages the country’s wealthiest families and their family office enterprises. Richard’s families rely on him to oversee family operations and make decisions with them on a daily basis.
Richard is a resident of Laguna Beach, California. His passions include traveling with his wife, Debbie, and family, long board surfing at San Onofre, swimming, skiing and snowboarding in the local mountains, piano, and music composition. He is the proud father of three adult sons; Aaron (wife Rene), Todd, and Russell, and welcomed his first granddaughter, Maclane Marie, in 2010.
Richard has a talent for creativity and will continue writing books in the Fables of Fortune series. Richard is often asked to speak on this topic to business, religious, and charitable groups.

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