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Summary: statistical, boring and dry
Review: I bought this book only because his first one "the millionaire next door' was so good. Big disappoinment. He re-hashes the same material over and over again, then uses charts and graphs to reiterate what has already been said. I forced myself to finish it, and it did get a little better toward the end.
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Summary: Profiles for Upscale People and Marriage Tips Too.
Review: Mr. Stanley expands on his earlier theme but unfortunately takes on a self-congratulatory tone this time by going on at length about how he met and wooed his wife. His subjects continue to be mainly white college educated types from a middle class background with a few self made types thrown in for good measure. He ignores successfull minority folks while evinicing some more disdain for "economic dropouts". Some of the ancedotal info is interesting but any curious reader would be well advised to make a trip to the library and save their money. That's one way anyone can be frugal including economic dropouts.
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Summary: Should be titled, "The Marketer-to-Millionaire's Mind"
Review: The author surveyed a very biased sample of millionaires -- those living in the 1% of U.S. neighborhoods with high concentrations of affluent -- and then received back less than 20% of the surveys he sent out. He then makes a big deal that so many live in similar types of houses (you could guess this just by the survey distribution method) and are 45-year-old white males (ditto). He then liberally praises these people, and himself, for being so virtuous as to accumulate wealth. I really liked the first book ("Next door"), and was very disappointed with this one.
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Summary: Weak and boring.
Review: His first book was pretty good (The Millionaire Next Door). This was quite repititive and boring. Don't bother.
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Summary: Invest Purchase Price Elsewhere
Review: As the reviewers say, invest the cost of this book in the stock market and watch your money grow. Buy the previous book and learn how to make money by working. This book reads like an expanded version of his research notes. Do not bother.
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Summary: A big Disappiontment
Review: I read Stanley's first book, The Millionaire Next Door, and while it wasn't great, I finished it. I thought that this second try was going to be more what I was hoping the first one would be. I wanted to read a book about what makes a millionaire. What were they like in school, how did they start out their career, what was their life like. I really wanted to hear first hand stories and examples. Instead, this book was simply pages upon pages of statistics restated to the reader who is seemingly incapable of reading a table of results themselves. This book could simply be a 50 pages packet of all the hard data results and be just as effective. Stanley used too much of his own commentary and not enough from the millionaires that he studied.
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Summary: Impressive living styles for selfish people
Review: This book is well written. All the statistics really illustrate the points the author tried to get across; these people live below their means. Although I admire the way these people lead their lives, I was kind of dissapointed with one notion. No where in the book it was mentioned that these people like to donate their money for good cause - although they participate in charities etc. Perhaps the author forgot to mention this idea in the book but it tells us that these people, although rich, are so selfish!
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Summary: A boring continuation to a fascinating start
Review: The "Millionaire Next Door" was a fascinating read that was almost impossible to put down. Research which acknowledged that the Sears charge card was one of the most popular credit cards in a millionaires wallet and many people with net worth over a million never made more than 70k a year was truly eye-opening information. However, "The Millionaire Mind" is full of boring platitudes. The book goes on and on about millionaire attributes of honesty and hard work. Furthermore it seems that the author only based his study on millionaires in the American South. The new economy millionaires of Silicon Valley and Seattle are curiously missing from Stanley's work. Furthermore, Stanley endlessly talked about how people achieved wealth,only in this book the average millionaire makes far more than the more modest yearly salaries of millionaires discussed in the "The Millionaire Next Door."
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Summary: Think and grow rich, take 55,090,993
Review: A bunch of all-American self-help balooney, maskeraded as social science. TonyRobbins'ware with a lot of tables looking like statistics and high science. This book is yet another feel-good piece, just like the previous one, but an improved edition: since a lot of people complained that the next-door millionaires didn't look that great (as it was not clear what they gained by being wealthy), Mr Author produced another version, where the role models are purported to lead balanced lives. Good deal! Now everyone can truly enjoy the good old "born poor, worked hard, blah blah blah" story. Only the cowboys are missing. Being significantly older than 15 and having been self-employed for quite some time, I laugh at the intellectual fraud that this book is. The main quality of a successful businessman an absolute honesty? Yeah, we wish. Not in my experience, and I do have some. Hey, forget that, you don't need to read it all, here's the main idea of the book: if you wanna be a millionaire, next door or otherwise, see if you are a low-IQ dumbo but with persistence and trust in God. If so, your fate is sealed, you're gonna be a millionaire next door. See? Simple. Don't need to buy no books. Of course had I read this book 25 years ago, that'd be different, but the way it is, I feel I can't afford to pay royalties to this guy (as I'm not a millionaire next door) and so the book goes back to the store. You can get it, for after you're through with the latest Rogue Warrior installment...
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Summary: The Millionaire Mind
Review: This book is very easy to read, and covers allot of very good information. I have read his other book also, but this book gives more details of what millionaires actually do and how they sustain their fortunes.
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