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The world of investing has always been full of people — both charlatans and mere braggarts — who are only too happy to tell you exactly how to get rich. In reality, building wealth is usually a slow and steady process of investing month after month, year after year, for decades. Successful investors know this, and often are irritated by the inflated and sometimes downright bogus claims of others.