title: Forbes Thought of the Day: Five-Year Journal for Business and Life
author: Forbes Magazine
description: Forbes is a media brand that documents and promotes innovation, leadership, politics, entertainment, technologies, culture, business, and style. Its mission is to deliver information on people, ideas, and technologies that are changing the world to its community of business decision makers. Since 1917, <i>Forbes </i>magazine has provided the world's affluent business leaders with strategic insight and information. Forbes.com is the homepage for the world's business leaders, serving an engaging mix of top stories, video, and trending features.
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  **Contents**
  
  > > >  _Title Page_
  
  > > >  _Acknowledgments_
  
  > > >  _Introduction_
  
   **Part One: What It Takes**
  
  > 1\. Education, Intelligence, Drive
  
  > 2\. Risk
  
  > 3\. Luck—and Timing
  
  > 4\. Winning Is Everything
  
   **Part Two: Making It**
  
  > 5\. Blue-collar Billionaires
  
  > 6\. West Coast Money
  
  > 7\. Entertainment and Media
  
  > 8\. Beyond Wall Street
  
   **Part Three: Spending It**
  
  > 9\. Conspicuous Consumption
  
  > 10\. Heirs
  
  > 11\. Family Feuds
  
  > 12\. Giving It Away
  
  > 13\. Power and Politics
  
  > > >  _Afterword: Money and Happiness_
  
  > > >  _Endnotes_
  
  > > >  _Appendix: The Forbes 400, 1982–2006_
  
  > > >  _Notes_
  
  > > >  _Contributors_
  
  > > >  _Copyright Page_
  
   **Acknowledgments**
  
  For the past twenty-five years, _Forbes_ magazine has compiled its now
  legendary list of the four hundred wealthiest Americans and considered the
  state of the nation’s vast fortunes. Its issues on the subject have been rich
  in facts and figures, on who’s up and who’s down, on