Name: The millionaire next door
Rating: 3.773809523809524 (42 reviews)
ISBN: 0671015206

Thomas J Stanley

the surprising secrets of America's wealthy

The millionaire next door

Greg Talbot

There's wealth and there's income. The gulf among the 'rich' are PAWs (Prodigious Accumulaters of Weatlh) and UAWs (Underachievers of wealth). Stanley's fantastic surveys and anecdotes deliver a obvious but poorly understood truism. No matter how much money you make, it don't mean squat if you can't manage it. As a non-millionaire, I was genuinely surprised about the money concerns, burdening expenses and family in-figting that can arise BECAUSE of the money. The books conclusions aren't rockst science, they are pretty evident on reflection, but it's easy to be swept by the consumerism ideal of money solves all problems. I recommend this book to readers for a number of reasons. It's not a "to-do" book about how to make your money, but it is about what it takes to acculumate wealth - stubborness, frugality, courage. The topics on gift gifting, parent/child conflicts, and lifesyle limits were illuminating. Well worth the read.

Nenad Nikolic

Good advice in a poorly written book. Author really needs to work on writing style since he already has the quality research.

Wenny

Alternative title for this would be: Bedtime Stories for the Hard Yakka-er. Read this when in need of reassurance that all that honest hard work and frugality pays off in the end. More persistence, less smart alecks - which is a good message by itself, just less so in the absence of doubt which makes it a very biased read. It really does put the onus solely on one's effort to be the creator of one's fortune.

The millionaire next door the surprising secrets of America's wealthy

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