The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

Acknowledgments
irst and foremost, I would like to thank Anna Biller for her
assistance on so many aspects of this book—including her deft
editing, the endless insightful ideas she supplied me during our
discussions, and all the love and support during the writing. This book
would not be possible without her many contributions, and I am
eternally grateful.
I would like to thank my agent, Michael Carlisle of Inkwell
Management, master of human nature, for all his invaluable advice
and assistance on the project. Also at Inkwell, my thanks go to Michael
Mungiello, and to Alexis Hurley, for bringing the book to a global
audience.
I have many people to thank at Penguin, most important of all my
editor, Andrea Schulz, for all her much appreciated work on the text,
and our numerous conversations in which she helped sharpen the
concept and share with me her own insights on human nature. I must
also thank the original editor on the project, Carolyn Carlson, as well
as Melanie Tortoroli for her editorial contributions. I would also like to
thank Andrea’s assistant, Emily Neuberger; the designer of the cover
Colin Webber; in the marketing department, Kate Stark and Mary
Stone; and Carolyn Coleburn and Shannon Twomey for their work on
the publicity front.
I must also thank Andrew Franklin, publisher of Profile Books in
England, who has been there for all six of my books, and whose literary
and publishing acumen I can always count on.
As always, I must thank my former apprentice and now bestselling
author and master strategist Ryan Holiday for all of his research
suggestions, marketing help, and overall wisdom.
I cannot forget to thank my cat, Brutus, who has now overseen the
production of my last five books and who has helped me understand
the human animal from a very different perspective.

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I would like to thank my dear sister, Leslie, for all her love, support,
and many ideas she has inspired over the years. And of course I must
thank my very patient mother, Laurette, for everything she has done
for me, not least of all instilling in me a love of books and history.
And finally, I would like to thank all those innumerable people
throughout my life who’ve shown me the worst and the best in human
nature, and who’ve supplied me endless material for this book.

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