Hollywood Here I Come! ; Every Year, the Dream of Becoming Rich Drives Thousands to Set Up Their Own Businesses. Most Fail Even to Stay Afloat, but Some Press On, Putting Up with Hard Work and Long Hours Like the London Woman Who Is About to Make a Movie

Mail on Sunday › February 26, 2004

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EVERYONE has a theory about what it takes to become rich . . . work for yourself, do more than one job, invest for the future, watch the pennies and avoid the taxman.

In the first of two special reports, we ask which of these wealth theories is most likely to pay dividends in the long run. This week, how it can pay to be your own boss.

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Hollywood Here I Come! ; Every Year, the Dream of Becoming Rich Drives Thousands to Set Up Their Own Businesses. Most Fail Even to Stay Afloat, but Some Press On, Putting Up with Hard Work and Long Hours Like the London Woman Who Is About to Make a Movie

Most of us would like to be rich.

Very rich, in fact. If we're not actively trying to achieve it, then we're wasting time daydreaming about it. Bookshops are stuffed full of volumes telling us how to make our first million.

Every week, 14 million of us take part in the National Lottery. Every week, nearly 14 million of us don't win it. And every year, 500,000 small businesses start up, hoping that they too will have the Richard Brans...

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