The Sawdust Millionaire

BY JODI CUDLIPP

As a schoolboy Johnny Inkster was told that money didn’t grow on trees. But he knew that apples did, so he rented an orchard. Then he learnt that craftsmen who worked with wood – which also grew on trees – produced waste material that they would pay him to take away. And other people were prepared to buy it from him. Johnny Inkster was on the way to making his first million.

Publish Date: 2010