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Surprisingly, the average American millionaire doesn’t look and doesn’t act like a millionaire.

They are proficient in targeting market opportunities.ĬHAPTER 1: MEET THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR.

Their adult children are economically self-sufficient.

Their parents did not provide economic outpatient care.

They believe that financial independence is more important than displaying high social status.

They allocate their time, energy, and money efficiently, in ways conducive to building wealth.

There are seven common denominators among affluent people. He is first-generation rich who has made money thanks to the habit of compulsive saving and investing. This person lives next door to people with a small part of his material goods.

He is the owner of a small factory, a chain of stores, or a service company. The Seven FactorsĪ typical wealthy individual is a businessman who has lived in the same town and has been married to the same person for all of his adult life. Even though some of these people can be characterised as “good income” earners, too many of them have small levels of accumulated wealth and therefore are not financially independent. The people who will benefit most from this book are the ones who live from salary to salary. It has nothing to do with luck, inheritance (more than 80 percent are ordinary people who have accumulated their wealth in one generation), or even intelligence. If you spend everything you earn, instead of accumulating wealth, you are just living high.Īffluence generally comes as the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and self-discipline. Good income doesn’t necessarily make you more prosperous. Identifying the difference between wealth and income is essential.

How can ordinary people become wealthy?.

The only difference between the millionaire next door and an average person is that the millionaire is financially independent. The majority of the rich live well below their means, in modest homes situated in middle-class, even working-class neighbourhoods, rather than in upscale neighbourhoods. But you can control your own business (and any private investments).Ĭontrary to popular belief, wealth and hyper-consumption don’t go hand in hand. Controlling one’s investments is crucial you can’t control the stock market. Most of them do not have all of their wealth tied up in their stock portfolios or in their homes. The primary reason that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently. They also found that most millionaires do not live in upscale neighbourhoods. The book gives insights on what you can do to become wealthy and how wealth is not what you spend but instead the assets and wealth you accumulate. In fact, a lot of those people are in debt and living month to month.

When Tom Stanley and William Danko the authors of The Millionaire Next Door went to investigate on how people get wealthy, they found something odd. Many of the people who live in upscale neighbourhoods and drive luxurious cars do not have a large amount of wealth.

I have compressed this summary down into this blog post to save you having to try and get to the end of the book yourself. So what I did was purchase a summary version of the book detailing the key takeaways from the book. Don’t get me wrong the information in the book is excellent but it is delivered in such a way that reading more than 5 pages at a time was putting me to sleep. This post was originally going to be a book review but to be completely honest I found the book so boring I could not finish it.