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Forbes magazine recently published its annual list of the 400 wealthiest people in America.  The entire list offers business lessons for all entrepreneurs, but the top 20 names offer a special set of insights. These are the richest of the ultrarich, and how they made their money provides a playbook for moneymaking.

Here are four key takeaways from this year’s list:

Choose entrepreneurship as your career

Owning a business is the single best way to become rich in America. Study the top 20, and you will see that all 20 people became wealthy through their ownership of a business. There are no rock stars, bank CEOs, real estate agents, movie moguls, writers, baseball players, stockbrokers, doctors or filmmakers in the top 20.

To read the full, original article click on this link: How the 20 Richest People in America Made Their Money | BNET

Author: John Warrillow