The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy (Millionaire Set, #2)

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko, and Cotter Smith

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"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence. The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family's wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America's rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.
  • ISBN10 1563523302
  • ISBN13 9781563523304
  • Publish Date 25 October 1996 (first published 1 October 1996)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 10 February 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Longstreet Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English