About the Author

Paul Zane Pilzer is a world-renowned economist, a multimillionaire software entrepreneur, a lay rabbi, an adjunct professor, and the author of three bestselling books.

Pilzer completed college in three years and received his MBA from Wharton in fifteen months at age 22. At age 24, he was appointed an adjunct professor at New York University where he has taught for 20 consecutive years. While employed as Citibank's youngest officer at 22 and its youngest vice president at 25, Pilzer started several entrepreneurial businesses-earning his first $1 million before age 26 and his first $10 million before age 30. Over the past 20 years, he has started and/or taken public five companies in the areas of software, education, and financial services.

He was an appointed economic advisor in two presidential administrations and warned of the impending $200-billion savings and loan crisis years before official Washington was willing to listen-a story that he later told in Other People's Money (Simon & Schuster, 1989) which was critically acclaimed by The New York Times and The Economist magazine.

Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth (Crown Publishers, 1990) explained how we live in a world of unlimited physical resources because of rapidly advancing technology. After reading Unlimited Wealth, the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, said that he was "amazed at Pilzer's business capacity" and his "ability to put it into layman's terms."

Pilzer's God Wants You to be Rich (Simon & Schuster, 1995/1997) explained how the foundation of our economic system is based on our Judeo-Christian heritage. This New York Times business bestseller was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and on television shows ranging from 60 Minutes to First Person with Maria Shriver. It has been published in 18 languages.

And now, in The Wellness Revolution (Wiley, 2002), Pilzer identifies the newly emerging "wellness" business and explains how wellness entrepreneurs can find their fortunes in this soon to be $1 trillion industry.

Pilzer, a former commentator on National Public Radio and CNN, has appeared three times on the Larry King Live! television program and on the cover of several national magazines. He speaks live each year to approximately 500,000 people and more than 10 million audiotapes of his speeches have been sold.

He lives in Utah with his wife and children where they are all avid snowboarders, mountain bikers, and chess players.