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Summary: Why make it if you can't enjoy it.
Review: It's a great book on how to be a millionare. But easy on rule #1. Living below your means even after you reached your financial goal is not healthy if it means being a cheapo. Enjoy life too. Why be rich if you can't spend it!. Save half for retirement and enjoy the other half now!
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Summary: Outstanding! A New way to live in a Modern Material world.
Review: I am what you might consider an avid reader of business and motivational texts. The Millionaire Next Door is officially among the most powerful, inspirational, and educational books tha!
The only other book to impact me in the same profound manner was How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Both of these books changed the philosophy of my life.
I have found it important to live by a philosophy, to have certain values and goals and direction to take. The Millionaire Next Door outlines why Millionaire become Millionaire, and in so doing sparked the growth of new seed in that has turned into a wonderful philosophy to live by. The book tells you about buying and spending habits. And most icredibly of all, it proves it, with quantatitive data. The book is an education in itself.
I not only recommend this book to parents but especially for people between the ages of 18-25. I believe this book is a necessary prerequisite for life.
I hope you get as much enjoyment and fulfillment out of this book as I did, and maybe one day you'll be the millionaire next door.
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Summary: If only my family would read this book ...
Review: I finished this book in one weekend -- I have to admit the topic had me absolutely mesmerized from the start! I've finally got the answer to the key financial question I've been contemplating for some time: Am I really headed in the right direction financially? And how do I compare to the folks who have already accomplished the same goals I'm pursuing? I found that the case studies of the Prodigious Accumulators of Wealth (PAWs) -- folks who've achieved a net worth of $1M or more -- to be quite fascinating. These people are by and large "just regular folks" -- except that they haven't concentrated on accumulating the external trappings of so-called wealth that many of the assumed "well-to-do" Americans (the vast universe of Underachievers of Wealth, or UAWs) have been chasing . The authors' message? If you work relatively hard, live below your means, and use the compounding power of time as your ally, you will eventually accumulate extensive wealth. Nothing our parents or grandparents haven't already told us -- but now, here's definite proof their soothsaying had and still has merit. And this isn't all just some fancy economists' theory. It's backed up by extensive research provided by the selfsame folks who have accomplished their financial goals, including reams of statistics and some interesting interpretations (like buying a car "by the pound"). Unmentioned in most other reviews: The two authors have also provided an equation based on statistics gleaned from the PAWS. The equation allows a reader to find out what side of the UAW/PAW paradigm they're on. Are these folks happy? I'm not sure. And who cares? This book lays out a roadmap to financial success; it's not SUPPOSED to be a weighty Aristotlean tome on how we're supposed to live. If you want principle-based living, read Steven Covey and the like. I'm getting this book for my brother for the Yule. I just hope it helps him get his head out of his arse financially, stop gambling on the riverboats, and halt economic aid to his ungrateful (and unworthy) kids. Another great gift suggestion: Send this to your friends and family members in Amway and other direct marketing "businesses." Ask them why no Amway distributors made the list of millionaires!
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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: I'm the Head of a University Academic Radiology Department, and have attended Harvard Business School Courses. The very basic, practical and "achieveable" results the authors depict were very revealing, and simple. I'm giving copies of this book to friends for the Holidays.
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Summary: One million dollars does not make one a millionaire
Review: A millionaire is someone who may afford a higher style of life than most people can even dream . Working hard and staying away from the pleasures that money allows is not being a millionaire. A true millionaire keeps it coming. It is a way of life not a purpose in life (making a million).
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Summary: Taking the spirit of the book to heart
Review: I've become a believer! As of this moment I will live below my means. I will not buy this book. I am in agreement with the reader from Japan. Almost anyone can become wealthy by not spending money. But at what cost? Social disconnection, deathbed regret and wealthy survivors.
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Summary: Sow the same seeds reap the same rewards
Review: The Millionaire Next Door is a book built for those with desire and are willing to become digusted with their old way of life and adapt a new wealth accumulating strategy for life. Its simple style allows the key belief systems to come shining through to those who desire to become wealthy. The message is delivered strongly with the content giving one hundred percent support of the beliefs. It is not overloaded with detail which would overload the ideas. The book comes off shining with strong points that anyone can understand and adapt. It was not written for literary quality but rather to give us the seeds so we can reap the rewards millionaires reap.
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Summary: THIS BOOK STINKS
Review: This book is a wonderful example of the power of marketing. A catchy title and hip cover cannot save this ridiculously BORING book. Basically, a couple academic starched-shirts tell you that rich people save their money. Neat. After they run out of material, they spend dozens of pages on HOW RICH PEOPLE BUY CARS. Save your money and do anything else with it.
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Summary: Do you want to be wealthy? Read this book!
Review: I am a financial strategist. I spend most of my day teaching people how to save for their future. This book is changing my financial future, as well as the future of my clients. It is a profound look into the net-wealthy of america. Follow the easy outline and you too can become a PAW in this lifetime.
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Summary: Everyone can be millionaires
Review: I was most perplexed by any less positive reviews posted on Amazon.com concerning this book. Regardless of the survey's generalizability, it SAMPLES the characteristics of the weathly, and suggests how others may do the same. True, it reaffirms well worn values and a 'common sense' approach to finances, but few texts provided data to support such hypothesis. You can read it sipping coffee at a bookstore and walk away with skills for a lifetime. If you don't already know it, read it. If you do, it reaffirms your track. If you disagree with its premises, then hopefully you are financially independent with money to spare. Spare cash, when net worths are measured in decamillions, translates to a relative frugality for a lifestyle of minimal superficiality.
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