After writing three business books promoting entrepreneurship, Wm. Hovey Smith felt it was time to write a more philosophical work. Real Wealth examines the nature of wealth, how it is derived, and its contribution to living a fulfilled life. The author suggests that readers search their backgrounds to discover hidden assets and implement the author's works. The author draws from his own life experiences, successes, and failures to describe a new way to consider one's life and heritage and how to best profit from it. One of the key tenets of Real Wealth is that there is nothing in human experience that cannot be turned to profit by an inventive mind.