7 × 7 = 48
The 48 Laws of the Money in the Middle
Two people do the same hour of work. One walks away with pennies, the other with a fortune. The only difference is the floor they chose to stand on. This is the book that teaches you to see the staircase - and climb it.
The world is a building.
Everybody lives on a floor.
Down in the basement are the people who sell the only thing they own - their hands and their hours. Up in the penthouse are the people who make nothing with their hands at all. They own the doorways everyone else’s money has to pass through. And in between, on every floor, stand the middlemen - the ones who don’t make the thing and don’t buy the thing, but take a slice of everything that walks past.
You do the work. You make the thing. You get paid last and least.
You take a slice as the money passes through your spot.
You own the place everyone else's money has to walk through.
The whole game is learning to move from the hand, to the mouth, to the door.
Two books. One staircase.
MIDDLEMAN shows you where to stand. The Family Secret takes you to the sealed room at the very top.
Seven floors. Climb them in order.
Each floor changes how you see money. Each law earns you the next. Don’t skip.
Three laws to start seeing.
Read by people who climbed.
What readers say once their eyes change.
“I've read every business book going. This is the first one that actually told me where to stand instead of telling me to hustle harder. The building metaphor rewired my brain.”
“I run a small trades business and law 16 - own the customer - hit me like a brick. I stopped chasing suppliers and started owning the relationship. Different business now.”
“Read it in two sittings. The line about the man with the book beating the man with the tools is going on my wall. Wish I'd had this ten years ago.”
“It reads like someone leaning across the table telling you the truth nobody else will. No fluff, no graphs, just where the money actually moves.”
“I was the lone plumber working myself into the ground. This book is the reason I now have five people and don't touch a wrench. Floor Five changed my life.”
“The 49th law tease alone is worth it. I bought The Family Secret before I'd even finished MIDDLEMAN. Brilliant, honest writing.”
From the doorway.
Start on the first floor. Free.
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