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| The Millionaire Next Door | 
 enlarge | Authors: Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (796 reviews)
Sales Rank: 664
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0671015206
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.5234
EAN: 9780671015206
ASIN: 0671015206
Publication Date: October 1, 1998
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Product Description
The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives -- and increasing their net worth! CAN YOU SPOT THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR? Who are the rich in this country?
What do they do?
Where do they shop?
What do they drive?
How do they invest?
Where did their ancestors come from?
How did they get rich?
Can I ever become one of them?
Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out....
Amazon.com Review
How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers--particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling.
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 Required reading for every young adult December 30, 2008
I've read a ton of personal finance books before and during my career as a Certified Financial Planner, and I'd have to rate this one in my top five of all time. In fact, if someone were to ask me out of the blue for one personal finance book they should read, this is usually my recommendation.
While it doesn't go in-depth on the investment decisions or wealth strategies that millionaires use, it goes very deep into the psychology, mindset, and habits of those who accumulate significant net worth.
It's easy to read, it's statistics are fascinating, and it'll make you feel a lot better about not living in a gate guarded community, driving a Beamer, or dressing in designer clothes.
There's no doubt that, fifty years from now, millionaires will still look more like the people in this book than the people you see on MTV Cribs or hanging out at the country club.
Two thumbs up.
Ken Clark, CFP
The Classics December 13, 2008
This is a precursor of Robert Kyosaki's "Rich Dad", John Cummuta's "Transforming debt into Weath" and other financial intelligence books. John Cummuta have extended this work by explaining the concept of compound interest, while Robert Kyosaki have resolved the issue of "live beyond your means", advocated by Thomas J. Stanley. The drawback of mr. Stanley is that he doesn't seem to suggest what do with accumulated wealth, and only advocates being prudent and frugal as a lifestyle, e.g. do not buy luxury cars or boats or wear expensive clothing's. Robert Kyosaki have criticized this modest lifestyle and have solved this drawback by clearly defined the distinctions of assets and the liabilities and suggested that luxury cars can be boats should be purchased from yields produced by the assets rather than from cash flows diverted from obtaining assets.
So, the "Millionaire Next Door" became a classics, while the other authors take the ideas from it without even referencing it.
Thomas J. Stanley have devised the terms "Under Accumulator of Wealth (UAW)", "Average Accumulator of Wealth (AAW)" and "Prodigious Accumulator of Wealth (PAW)", and concluded that any American PAW household even with very modest income will become millionaire.
The main points of the book are: Spend Less Than You Earn, Avoid Buying Status Objects or Leading a Status Lifestyle, PAWs Are Willing to Take Financial Risk if it is Worth the Reward and Economic Outpatient Care. The authors also make the interesting observation that UAWs tend to have children who require an influx of their parents' money in order to afford the lifestyle that they expect for themselves, and that they are less likely to have been taught about money, budgeting and investing by their parents.
I would suggest the works by Robert Kyosaki and John Cummuta in addition to this book.
 Check it out at the library! December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book's subject matter is good. The problem--it reads like a bad research paper. It's so boring!!!!! If you're interested in stats on every page, have at it. Otherwise, check it out at the library and skim the main points.
 The millionaire net door November 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
my husband loves it! lots of facts about millionaires and how they live and spend their $
Great Intro to Wealth Building November 21, 2008
This is one of the best books on wealth bulding I have even read and I've read hundreds of them.
It does a superb job of profiling key characteristic and behaviors that American typically fall into putting themselves deep into debt and then gives simple and easy to connect with ways to counter these behaviors to put yourself on the right track to financial independence.
Really, really great! Do yourself and your family a favor and read it.
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