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Phil Town isn’t your typical Wall Street investment guy.
An ex-Green Beret and former river guide, Phil Town is a self-made millionaire several times over and America’s most widely sought-after investing speaker.
In his book, RULE #1, Phil describes the Rule #1 personal financial strategy in detail so that anyone (even first-time investors) can get and stay rich.
Phil Town was an average high school student, he completed college on his fourth try. Of his early working years, he says he “mostly got dirty for a living”, taking on jobs such as digging ditches and pumping gas. Phil Town spent three and a half years in the Army, returned from the Vietnam War and found a job in the U.S. as a river guide.
Phil drifted through Utah,Idaho and California subsisting at poverty level, combining his wages from the guiding season and unemployment. He wore black leathers, sported a goatee, lived in a tepee in the woods near Flagstaff, Arizona, and “drove around on a really loud black Harley Davidson”.
In the early ’80s, Phil Town’s life radically changed. He was guiding trustees from the educational program Outward Bound down the nastiest rapid on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River, when his split-second decisions saved a boatload of people from a whitewater disaster. A grateful and financially astute client returned the favor by guiding Town into serious, successful investing using the first rule of investing as ascribed to by Warren Buffett: Don’t lose money. Within five years, Town had built a borrowed $1,000 into $1 million.
Phil Town speaks regularly on the same stage as Rudy Giuliani, Bill Clinton Carter, and Zig Ziglar as part of the Get Motivated touring seminar. He speaks to more than 600,000 people annually about Rule #1. Phil is a regular guest on CNBC’s “The Millionaire Inside”, alongside fellow wealth experts like David Bach, Barbara Corcoran, Loral Langemeier, and frequently appears on the MSNBC program “Your Business”.
Phil Town lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Atlanta, Georgia.

Phil Town isn’t your typical Wall Street investing guru.

Phil Town is ex-Green Beret and former river guide, Phil Town is a self-made millionaire many times over and America’s most widely sought-after investing seminar speaker.

In his 1st book, RULE #1, Phil describes the Rule #1 personal financial strategy in detail so that anyone (even first-time investors) can get and stay rich. His new book PAYBACK TIME is now available for Pre-sell.

Phil Town was an average high school student, he completed college on his fourth try. Of his early working years, he says he “mostly got dirty for a living”, taking on jobs such as digging ditches and pumping gas. Phil Town spent three and a half years in the Army, returned from the Vietnam War and found a job in the U.S. as a river guide.

Phil drifted through Utah,Idaho and California subsisting at poverty level, combining his wages from the guiding season and unemployment. He wore black leathers, sported a goatee, lived in a tepee in the woods near Flagstaff, Arizona, and “drove around on a really loud black Harley Davidson”.

In the early ’80s, Phil Town’s life radically changed. He was guiding trustees from the educational program Outward Bound down the nastiest rapid on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River, when his split-second decisions saved a boatload of people from a whitewater disaster. A grateful and financially astute client returned the favor by guiding Phil Town into serious, successful investing using the first rule of investing as ascribed to by Warren Buffett: Don’t lose money. Within five years, Phil Town had built a borrowed $1,000 into $1 million.

Phil Town speaks regularly on the same stage as Rudy Giuliani, Bill Clinton Carter, and Zig Ziglar as part of the Get Motivated touring seminar. He speaks to more than 600,000 people annually about Rule #1. Phil is a regular guest on CNBC’s “The Millionaire Inside”, alongside fellow wealth experts like David Bach, Barbara Corcoran, Loral Langemeier, and frequently appears on the MSNBC program “Your Business”.

Phil Town lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Atlanta, Georgia.