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Summary: Well worth reading...and gifting!
Review: The saying, "I wish I knew then what I know now" is certainly appropriately connected to this soul-searching book. Anyone who has trouble managing their money and is consistently surprised at how little they keep of the increasing amounts that they make, should stop what they're doing and jump right into this book.Written in an easy-to-understand fashion, much unlike that of most financial books, it takes one through all the plateaus necessary to completely understand one's underlying and ensuing developmental pieces which have lead to the overspending and undersaving that has lead you to this book. Had it been given to me when I was about 14 years old (and had been written then) I would have definitely rearranged my financial house long ago. If not keeping enough of what you make, or if you find yourself with much more that you really need in your life, this is the ticket to being the next millionaire next door!
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Summary: Inspirational and life changing
Review: This book changed my life and made me understand what's necessary to achieve certain results for which I hoped(being a millionaire). Modern America and its high consumption lifestyle is explained and the results of a frugal lifestyle and the results which can be obtained.
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Summary: Right on with its advice
Review: The book is dead on with its advice to be frugal and work hard. However, I couldn't help but think that the book might be better suited for a long magazine article. You can only spend so much time talking about how millionaires buy their cars. At times I wanted to say the authors: "Okay, I get the picture, move on." It's a good book, but I did a lot of skimming.
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Summary: Repetition-epetition-petition-etition-tition-itiontioniononn
Review: I'm amazed at the number of five-stars and four-stars for this book. As somebody else mentioned this book should have been a pamphlet. If you are a sucker for punishment, and need someone to smack you with a baseball bat for you to know saving is good, you may consider this book. Else, you would have come across most of what is said in this book, (all of two or three advices) anyway and with any common-sense would have acted on them. One bright side to this book. I am very hopeful now that I can write a book someday, and make a lot of money. I am quite sure I can come up with one or two semi-original ideas and use them to fill up a book, and find enough suckers to buy it. How's that for a retirement plan?!
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Summary: The same three thoughts over and over and over
Review: How many times can you say, the millionaire next door doesn't drive a new car, wear an expensive watch, live in an expensive house and his wife clips coupons. Oh, what they forgot to say was these people are BORING!!! Hey there is a big world out there, live a little!!
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Summary: It will change your life
Review: How do you rate a book? One way is by the impact it has on your life. TMND gets my highest rating, because it is the kind of book that will change your whole way of life (unless you're on the author's track already). After reading this book, I began dramatically increasing my rate of savings and reducing unnecessary expenses. I will have 5 times the savings at the end of this year that I was on track to have before reading TMND. FIVE TIMES! That's like being paid for four extra years' work in a single year! I now look at the whole concept of buying things differently; instead of thinking that accumulating possessions is a sign of success, I now realize it's only a hindrance to the accumulation of true wealth and financial security. I am on track to buy a house (no mortgage, I mean BUY) in five years, and still have investments left over. This book will inspire you to set ambitious financial goals, and then take the steps to reach them. Truly inspirational, it may be the best single investment you can make.
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Summary: Will definitely increase your net worth
Review: This book concentrates on the saving aspect and very successfully gets across the message that you got to be extremely frugal in your habits and try not to live up to the so-called high society Johns. This book could straight away save you thousands of dollars in case you are planning to buy a car or a house. This will also teach you that a bird in hand is two in the bush. But one aspect I feel that has been left out is that it hardly concentrates on our abilities to increase our earnings and instead stresses on keeping what you have got. All in all a great book and the savings are immediate. Highly recommended. (In case you want to read some inspiring stuff try "Every Street Paved with Gold" by Kim Woo-Choong [Chairman, Daewoo]. It will change your life - for better).
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Summary: Simply sucks
Review: It tell you how the millonares live, but it keeps repeting itself. if you wanna know something new please don't get thisEND
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Summary: Let the truth be heard!
Review: Finally....the book that answered my questions about how average Joe's (or Jane's) accumulate wealth in their lifetimes. After reading, I sold my $300.00 a month Nissan Altima for a '89 Buick (paid in full) and also reduced my insuance costs. I still find it tough to be a "tightwad" like some of those people in the book but I'm learning. I work with a guy who actually fits the "model" of many people in that book. He owns 25 rental properties, gets excited about 49 cent Big Macs, drives a regular van, wears junky clothes, house paid for, uses cash for everything....you would never guess his net woth is around a mill...amazing to me. I recommend the book highly. I'm waiting for the cassette tape to come out.
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Summary: The Millionaire Next Door is a road map to wealth.
Review: The Millionaire Next Door is the best tool for becoming wealthy and wise I've read. The use of years of research from interviewing people who have learned that they are in control of their incomes not the reverse. I qoute this book every day of my life and found the lessons displayed in this book to extend to all walks of life. I can say without a doubt that this book has increased my personal wealth as well as my happiness.
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