International Wealth Success (IW$) is a wealth-building publishing and information company that gives entrepreneurs, investors, business buyers, real estate wealth builders, and ambitious individuals practical knowledge, sources, methods, and tools they can use to make more money, acquire assets, raise capital, and build lasting wealth.
Tyler G. Hicks founded International Wealth Success in 1966 with a simple idea: ordinary men and women can accomplish extraordinary financial things when they have access to the right knowledge, opportunities, and sources of money.
That idea still drives IW$ today.
Dream big. Act bold. ATTAIN more.
What International Wealth Success Does
International Wealth Success publishes practical wealth-building information designed to be used.
Our books, kits, directories, periodicals, forms, guides, and other resources concentrate on four great avenues to financial independence: finding money, buying businesses, starting and building businesses, and acquiring income-producing real estate.
Find Funding
Money is the fuel that turns an idea into an operating business, a property into an investment, and an opportunity into an asset you control.
IW$ publishes books, directories, guides, and Business Success Kits that show you how to locate lenders, investors, venture capital, credit, asset-based financing, private money, and other sources of capital. You also learn one of Tyler G. Hicks’s central wealth-building principles: how to use Other People’s Money, or OPM, productively to accomplish objectives beyond the limits of your own cash.
Buy a Business
An operating business can give you customers, cash flow, equipment, employees, suppliers, systems, and market position from the first day you own it.
IW$ teaches aspiring buyers how to find opportunities, evaluate businesses, approach owners, structure transactions, use creative financing, raise acquisition capital, negotiate terms, and complete deals. Our acquisition resources range from individual books to comprehensive systems containing forms, checklists, letters, financial tools, and practical deal-making instruction.
Start and Build a Business
Every great business began with somebody deciding to act.
IW$ publishes practical guides to starting, operating, financing, marketing, and expanding businesses. Our library covers traditional businesses, home-based enterprises, brokerage and finder businesses, import-export, direct marketing, franchising, licensing, professional services, and other entrepreneurial opportunities.
Build Wealth Through Real Estate
Real estate has created fortunes for generations because it allows an ambitious person to control valuable assets, generate income, employ leverage, and build equity over time.
IW$ resources cover locating properties, financing acquisitions, finding lenders, using leverage, structuring transactions, creating income, and approaching real estate as a business.
ATTAIN Magazine
ATTAIN is the monthly International Wealth Success publication for wealth-builders around the world.
Its roots reach back to the original IW$ publication Tyler G. Hicks founded in 1966. Every issue carries forward the same practical mission with wealth-building strategies, business opportunities, financing sources, real-world examples, useful contacts, entrepreneurial ideas, and people whose achievements demonstrate what can be done.
Books, Business Success Kits, and Directories
IW$ has developed a library covering virtually every major aspect of independent wealth creation.
Individual books explain specific strategies. Directories put sources and organizations into your hands. IW$ Business Success Kits go farther by assembling instruction, forms, examples, publications, and working materials into self-study systems designed to help you enter a field and begin taking action.
What Makes International Wealth Success Different
More Than 60 Years Devoted to Wealth Building
Tyler G. Hicks founded International Wealth Success in 1966. IW$ has spent six decades publishing practical information for people who want to make money, own businesses, finance ventures, acquire property, and achieve financial independence.
Financial fashions change. The fundamental activities that create wealth remain remarkably durable: finding opportunities, raising money, acquiring assets, increasing cash flow, negotiating intelligently, and acting decisively.
Practical Information You Can Put to Work
Large business publishers such as Wiley, HarperCollins Leadership, McGraw Hill, and Entrepreneur Press publish broad business libraries for mass audiences. IW$ has historically occupied a narrower and intensely practical territory: specialized wealth-building information created for people ready to undertake an actual venture.
That is why an IW$ publication may contain lender sources, sample letters, worksheets, forms, deal structures, scripts, calculations, contacts, checklists, or step-by-step instructions.
Knowledge becomes valuable when you put it to work.
A Wealth-Building Library Created by a Wealth Builder
Tyler G. Hicks wrote more than 130 books during a publishing career spanning more than six decades.
He wrote as an entrepreneur, financier, engineer, businessman, teacher, publisher, lender, investor, and dealmaker. His subjects ranged from business finance and real estate to acquisitions, venture capital, brokerage, mail order, importing and exporting, credit, entrepreneurship, and the productive use of OPM.
His governing question was wonderfully practical:
How can you use this to make money?
That question remains part of the IW$ character.
More Than 30 Specialized Business Success Kits
IW$ developed more than 30 Business Success Kits covering specialized fields such as business financing, financial brokerage, real estate, venture capital, importing and exporting, franchising, leasing, public offerings, business acquisition, and other entrepreneurial activities.
A kit takes the reader beyond a single book by assembling the knowledge and working materials needed to understand an opportunity and begin putting a plan into action.
Built for Beginning Wealth Builders
Many financial publications are written principally for people who already possess substantial capital.
IW$ has spent generations speaking to the person who is before the first million: the employee who wants a business, the entrepreneur who needs capital, the investor searching for a first property, the business buyer who cannot write a seven-figure check, and the ambitious individual who knows he can accomplish more.
You begin with what you have.
Then you learn how to obtain what you need.
Then you act.
That is the IW$ way.
Who Uses International Wealth Success?
International Wealth Success serves ambitious people who want practical ways to increase income, control assets, create businesses, and build wealth, including:
- Aspiring entrepreneurs preparing to start their first business
- Existing business owners seeking financing, growth strategies, contacts, and new opportunities
- Business buyers searching for companies to acquire
- First-time acquirers interested in creative financing and OPM
- Real estate investors seeking properties, financing sources, and acquisition strategies
- Independent wealth builders working toward their first $1 million
- Finders, brokers, consultants, and intermediaries
- Professionals seeking an additional source of business income
- Investors looking for new areas in which to put capital to work
- Entrepreneurs searching for lenders, investors, banks, and financing companies
- Action-oriented readers who prefer practical instructions, forms, contacts, examples, and working systems to general financial theory
The Team Behind International Wealth Success
Tyler G. Hicks, Founder
Tyler G. Hicks (1921–2020) founded International Wealth Success in 1966 while working at McGraw-Hill. An engineer, entrepreneur, financier, teacher, publisher, and extraordinarily prolific author, he went on to write more than 130 books and became known to generations of readers as the Millionaire Maker.
Tyler devoted his career to showing ordinary people how to start businesses, acquire assets, find financing, use leverage, discover overlooked opportunities, and create wealth. His direct approach placed action above theory and made OPM, Other People’s Money, one of the great recurring principles of his work.
Anthony Raymond Michalski, Publisher
Publisher and entrepreneur Anthony Raymond Michalski, through Kallisti Publishing Inc., acquired International Wealth Success in 2023 and became its publisher.
Several years before buying the company, Michalski bought Tyler G. Hicks’s book The IW$ Guide to How to Buy a Business With No Money Down. When the opportunity arose to acquire International Wealth Success itself, he drew upon Hicks’s acquisition principles, methods, and forms.
He bought the book.
Then he bought the company that published it.
From 1966 to Today
Tyler G. Hicks built International Wealth Success around a conviction that opportunity belongs to people willing to recognize it and act upon it.
Today, IW$ continues that work by preserving and republishing Tyler’s wealth-building knowledge, updating important resources, creating new books and business systems, publishing ATTAIN, developing new directories and practical tools, and expanding the IW$ library for a new generation of Beginning Wealth Builders.
The methods evolve.
The mission endures:
Give people practical means to move forward boldly toward financial independence.
How International Wealth Success Works
Choose the Goal You Want to Attain
Begin with the result you want.
Do you need money for a business? Want to buy a company? Start an enterprise? Acquire real estate? Create another stream of income?
IW$ organizes its resources around the practical objective you want to accomplish.
Select the Right Resource
Some objectives call for a book. Others require a directory of sources. More involved ventures may justify a complete Business Success Kit containing instruction, forms, worksheets, examples, and additional reference materials.
Product descriptions explain what each IW$ resource covers so you can select the material suited to your objective and present stage of development.
Put the Information to Work
Read with a pencil in your hand.
Mark ideas. Make lists. Complete worksheets. Contact sources. Run the numbers. Make telephone calls. Send letters. Examine opportunities. Ask questions. Make offers.
IW$ materials are built around application because financial results come from intelligent action.
Get Help When You Need It
Customers may contact International Wealth Success directly with questions concerning IW$ publications, orders, and the use of our materials.
Customer inquiries are normally answered by email within one business day.
IW$ provides guidance concerning its own publications and educational materials. Legal, tax, securities, accounting, investment, and other professional matters should be addressed with the appropriate qualified professional.
Keep Moving Forward
Wealth building is cumulative.
One contact leads to another. One transaction produces experience. One asset generates cash flow. One successful business creates the ability to acquire another.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Find what you need.
Then move.
Key Facts About International Wealth Success
- Company Name
- International Wealth Success
- Abbreviations
- IWS and IW$
- Type
- Wealth-building publisher and information company
- Founded
- 1966
- Founder
- Tyler G. Hicks
- Current Publisher
- Anthony Raymond Michalski
- Owner
- Kallisti Publishing Inc.
- Headquarters
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
- Website
- iWealthSuccess.com
- Core Offering
- Practical wealth-building books, Business Success Kits, directories, periodicals, guides, tools, forms, and educational resources
- Pricing
- Individual publications begin at under $10, with larger directories, collections, and comprehensive Business Success Kits priced according to their scope.
- Contract Terms
- Most IW$ products are sold individually with no membership contract or long-term commitment. Recurring publications and subscription products are offered under the terms stated on their individual product pages.
- Services
- Wealth-building publishing, business education, financing information, business-acquisition resources, real-estate resources, capital-source directories, entrepreneurial systems, and customer guidance relating to IW$ materials.
- Communication
- Customer service and publication support are available primarily by email through iWealthSuccess.com. Customer inquiries are normally answered within one business day.
- Notable Clients
- IW$ has served entrepreneurs, investors, business owners, executives, and independent wealth builders in the United States and around the world since 1966.
- Customers Served
- Beginning Wealth Builders, entrepreneurs, business buyers, real estate investors, founders, business owners, finders, brokers, consultants, and people seeking financing or new sources of income.
- Projects Delivered
- More than 130 books by founder Tyler G. Hicks, more than 30 specialized Business Success Kits, numerous financing and business directories, periodicals, courses, reports, guides, forms, and other wealth-building publications.
- Competitors
- Publishers and information companies serving the entrepreneurship, business, investing, and wealth-building markets include Wiley, McGraw Hill, Entrepreneur Press, HarperCollins Leadership, and other business and financial publishers.
- Social
- International Wealth Success maintains an official Facebook presence.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is International Wealth Success?
International Wealth Success is a wealth-building publishing and information company founded by Tyler G. Hicks in 1966. IW$ publishes practical books, Business Success Kits, directories, periodicals, guides, and other resources that help people find money, buy businesses, start and grow businesses, acquire real estate, and build wealth.
Who founded International Wealth Success?
Tyler G. Hicks founded International Wealth Success in 1966 while working at McGraw-Hill. He subsequently wrote more than 130 books and became known as the Millionaire Maker for his teachings on entrepreneurship, financing, real estate, acquisitions, leverage, and wealth creation.
Who owns International Wealth Success today?
Kallisti Publishing Inc. acquired International Wealth Success in 2023. Anthony Raymond Michalski serves as publisher and is expanding the company while preserving, restoring, and republishing the work of founder Tyler G. Hicks.
What does IW$ teach?
IW$ concentrates on the practical mechanics of creating wealth: finding capital, buying businesses, starting enterprises, acquiring real estate, creating income, using leverage, employing OPM, discovering opportunities, and converting ideas into economically productive action.
What is OPM?
OPM means Other People’s Money, one of the concepts most closely associated with Tyler G. Hicks.
It refers to the productive use of borrowed money, seller financing, investor capital, credit, institutional financing, and other sources of funds to acquire assets and undertake profitable ventures.
What is an IW$ Business Success Kit?
An IW$ Business Success Kit is a self-study system built around a particular business, financing, real estate, or entrepreneurial objective.
Depending upon the subject, a kit may contain books, reports, forms, directories, worksheets, scripts, examples, checklists, planning materials, and other practical tools.
Is International Wealth Success only for experienced investors?
IW$ was built especially for ambitious people who want to begin.
Tyler G. Hicks repeatedly wrote for people starting with limited capital, limited experience, or both. The essential qualifications are a worthwhile goal, willingness to learn, and willingness to take intelligent action.
Does IW$ provide business financing?
IW$ publishes information about obtaining and using business financing and provides directories and resources that identify potential sources of capital.
Financing decisions are made by the independent banks, lenders, investors, funds, and other organizations involved.
Does IW$ give investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice?
IW$ provides educational information concerning business, wealth building, real estate, financing, acquisitions, and entrepreneurship.
Readers undertaking transactions requiring legal, accounting, tax, securities, investment, or other regulated professional advice should employ qualified professionals for those matters.
What is ATTAIN?
ATTAIN is the monthly International Wealth Success magazine for wealth-builders around the world.
It grew from the publishing tradition Tyler G. Hicks began in 1966 and features practical wealth-building ideas, business opportunities, financing information, contacts, real-world examples, and people whose experience can help readers attain more.
Where should I begin with International Wealth Success?
Begin with the goal that matters most to you.
If you need capital, start with Find Funding. If you want to own an existing company, begin with Buy a Business. If you want to create an enterprise of your own, choose Start and Build a Business. If property is your preferred road to wealth, begin with Build Wealth Through Real Estate.
Choose your objective.
Get the knowledge.
Take the first action.
Then take the next one.
Dream big. Act bold. ATTAIN more.