A book by Ferentz Rom Baro Alexandrescu
For everyone who gets paid and still feels poor.
You are not poor because you earn too little. You are poor because of what you do in the first hour after the money lands in your hand.
It does not leave because there is too little of it. It leaves in the first hour, before you have even sat down to think. It goes to pride, to the eyes of people who do not pay your bills, to small comforts that feel like nothing on the day and add up to everything by the end of the year.
Slide to your wage. The book opens the chapter written for it.
Chapter 1
There is a split for this wage. How much you keep, how much you let breathe, how much you put where your hand cannot reach it easily. A small wage and a large wage are not the same animal, and they must not be treated the same.
This wage divides into 6 parts, each with a name and a number.
The exact numbers are kept for the readers. Buy the book to unlock Chapter 1.
Get the bookUnderstand one thing before you decide. At my age, money is the smallest thing in my life. I do not need yours. What I want is for you to read this and have your own money serve you for forty years. That is the only trade I am interested in.
I did not grow wealthy from selling. Selling only filled my hand. I grew wealthy from what I did the moment the money landed, and that is the whole of this book.
Ferentz
I sat across from Ferentz at the poker table last winter and lost. He handed me his book on the way out, and now I know exactly what to do with my winnings, especially the part he calls The Half The Raise Rule. Half the win goes back into the old life, half disappears into the future before my hand ever closes around it.
George S.
Marketer, Cambridge, UK
My uncle Vasili has done business with Ferentz for thirty years moving Ladas and antique Russian goods, and he gave me this book the morning after my wedding with a look that meant read it; the line in Chapter 1 about pride being the most expensive thing a man buys hit me so hard I canceled the new car I was about to finance, and my wife and I put the down payment into our first joint savings the same week.
Mr. Drimitov
Newlywed, Volgograd, Russia
I am twenty-three, just finished my degree, working remote jobs while I save for the next one, trying to provide for my mother and myself because I never had a father in the house to teach me any of this; I almost did not buy this book because every coin matters right now, but it cost less than a meal at a restaurant and now I carry the kind of knowledge that, given enough years, lets me one day buy the restaurant.
Alexandra
Recent graduate, Marseille, France
Before you spend a single coin, let me tell you honestly who should not.
If you are still here, then it was written for you. Here is what it gives the one who stays.
One book. One price. Nothing hidden.
If you read it and feel you were cheated, write to me honestly, and we will speak like two grown people. I do not want money from an unhappy man.
Ferentz
I am not like the others. I will not beg you to buy this, and I will not spend three pages justifying why my own book is worth your money. You already know me. You saw my page, the way I speak and the way I live, and you followed the trail all the way here. A man does not walk from my Instagram to this door by accident. You came with your mind already made up, and that is enough for me.
The door stays open every day, whatever the price is that day. But if you are standing here before the price has finished climbing, this is the cheapest hour this book will ever cost you. Take it now, or come back later and pay what it costs then. I will not chase you, and I will not lower my voice to sell you. That was never our way.
This is entry to a private book, not a trinket I can lift back off your shelf, so a refund is not a thing I can promise to everyone. But if you have a real reason, write to me honestly and we will speak like two grown people. If I return your money, your key is switched off and the door closes again. I do not want coin from an unhappy man, and I do not hand the book out for nothing either.
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The moment you pay, you get your own private key. Enter it in your reading room and the book opens right in your browser, on your phone or your computer, whenever you want it.
Before You Touch Your Salary
Launch price
$20.99
The price rises in
Why three days? When Ceaușescu fell, I did not run into the street on the first morning. I watched for three days, until I was certain no one was watching me back. Then I moved, and I did not stop for thirty years. Three days to decide. That has always been the family rhythm, and now it is yours.
The ladder has been climbed. The price has settled, and it will not move again.
A 79-page book. Your private key opens it, forever.
Get the bookThe knowledge is free to read. Only the numbers are for sale.
Seventy-nine pages, no filler. The plan, step by step, from the moment the money is in your hand.
OpenAn old Rom, born in Romania in 1960. Who I am, and why I wrote this down for you.
OpenIt does not leave because there is too little of it. It leaves in the first hour. Here is the truth of it.
OpenAn honest word on who should not buy it, and what it gives the one who stays.
OpenThe words of early readers who put the book to work in their own lives.
OpenEleven questions, answered the way I would answer you at my own table. The money, the book, and the man.
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