i have a FANTASTIC get rich quick scheme thought up. it’s just the time needed to set it up would just get in the way of my 2 jobs and watching movies. If any one steals this idea then you owe me like half of whatever you make from it. and… if someone already came up with the idea and is looking for me… just point in some direction and tell him that “he just ran that way”.
So i have this idea for a book. it is a magic book…. no really… it is a book the “teaches you magic tricks.” magic card tricks to be exact. i figure to keep my unpopularity low i will include THE pack of cards with the book. It’ll say on the front cover “LEARN HOW TO DO CARD TRICKS MADE FAMOUS BY MAGICIANS” and then it’ll have a pack of playing cards…. OH YEAH… AND it has to be shrink wrapped. we don’t want anyone “stealing” any of our “secrets” without them paying for it. SO it is sitting there on the shelf in the book store. a kid comes in and yells “JEEPERS MOM A BOOK ON MAGIC. OH BOY I WOULD SURE LIKE TO GET THIS” and the mom says “Well i guess it IS your birthday next week, how much is it?” “$30” … no wait you always gotta have dumb prices at stores let’s make it “$29.97” so the mom buys the kid the book he is CRAZY excited to get the book home so he can learn how to do magic tricks to help him be able to make more friends because of his low self esteem issues. He finally arrives home, runs through the door, up the stairs, into his bedroom. he sits on the floor and can’t contain the curiosity any longer he rips off the plastic wrap covering the book, sets the cards off to the side, and flings the book open to see what wondrous tricks he can learn BUT all he sees printed on every page of the book is “SORRY A GOOD MAGICIAN NEVER REVEALS HIS SECRETS” … oh yeah did i also mention we have to have a no refund policy too.
…But for a get rich quick thing, wouldn’t you have to “sponsor” other people and get them to sale it? Nope… I’m thinking of pyramids.
I think that’s how David Copperfield got his start. As a young boy he was so enraged by the statement “A good magician never reveals his secrets” and the fact that he broke his piggy bank to buy it, that he then said, “I will show you what a good magician does” and he made a spooky shift with his eyes then disappeared.