According to Robert Allen, there are three basic financial mountains to climb:
1. Real Estate mountain (it's about finding the real estate, financing it and maintaining it)
2. Investing mountain (it's about timing)
3. Marketing mountain (find and keep life-long customers)
Luck and gambling probably would be some 4th mountain, although I suppose that it's not really a challenge, but just luck. Luck is usually not about skills.
If you have a job, you can probably think of your boss as your customer. He is buying your product - you and your work. (So that's the 3rd mountain)
Another way how to make money is licensing. You license your patents or intelectual property, but I think that's still the marketing mountain.
There are probably hundreds of ways how to make money, but the most common are probably the easiest.
I can really recommend Multiple Streams Of Income by Robert Allen, I think that it's a great book.
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