If you look around your community, you may conclude that the wealthiest people you know are business owners. That's not a regional phenomenon; it's the same all over the world. Regular surveys by Forbes Magazine continue to prove many of the wealthiest people in the world are business owners.

Owning shares in a business is substantially the same as owning the business, it just feels different. It feels different because you don't control the business and you're not involved in the day to day running of the operation. It's not the business owners' salaries that make them wealthy, it's the value of the underlying business assets. If you own 10% of the shares, then you would own 10% of the wealth that is attributed to that business. If you want the kind of wealth that business owners have, then it makes sense to conduct your affairs the way a successful business owner would.

Let's look at what they do.