Most of the real money isn’t in the royalties or the sales. For authors, the real money comes from speaking, teaching, or consulting.

It’s another Tao of business: Set up your business like you don’t need the money, and it’ll likely come your way.

I’ve never met a person who ever reached ‘their number.’  You know, people say, ‘When I hit $Xm, I’ll be good.’ They say, ‘Once I have X years salary in the bank, I’ll be good.’ No one ever seems to get to that number. We’re never ‘good’ because we move the goalposts…(or because we set a preposterous and unrealistic number to begin with).

Here’s how to live: Get rich.