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The Millionaire Next Door is a fascinating study of the work and personal habits of America's surprisingly abundant blue-collar millionaires and PAW's (prodigious accumulator's of wealth) - by marketing professor, author and business theorist, Thomas J. Stanley. (258 pages)
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The Millionaire Next Door Summary
This The Millionaire Next Door publisher’s blurb comes from the Taylor Trade paperback edition of the book…
“‘Why aren’t I as wealthy as I should be?’ Many people ask this question of themselves. Often they are hard-working, well-educated, middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent? For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the best-selling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, reissued with a new preface for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley.
According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advanced degrees, or even intelligence. The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family’s wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue — they live next door.”
The Millionaire Next Door Contents
The Millionaire Next Door has 8 main chapters…
Introduction
- Meet the Millionaire Next Door
- Frugal Frugal Frugal
- Time, Energy, and Money
- You Aren’t What You Drive
- Economic Outpatient Care
- Affirmative Action, Family Style
- Find Your Niche
- Jobs: Millionaires versus Heirs
The Millionaire Next Door is data heavy. It contains 31 tables as indexed below…
- 1-1: The Top Ten Ancestry Groups of American Millionaires
- 1-2: The Top Fifteen Economically Productive Small Population Ancestry Groups
- 2-1: Prices Paid by Millionaires for Clothing and Accessories
- 2-2: Credit Cards of Millionaire Household Members
- 2-3: Contrasts among American Taxpayers
- 3-1: Concerns, Fears, and Worries: Dr. North vs. Dr. South
- 3-2: Consumption Habits: The Norths vs. the Souths
- 3-3: Income and Wealth Contrasts: The Norths vs. the Souths
- 3-4: Concerns, Fears, and Worries: PAWs vs. UAWs
- 3-5: Investment Planning and Demographic Contrasts: Middle-Income PAWs vs. UAWs
- 3-6: Hours Allocated: Dr. North vs. Dr. South
- 4-1: Motor Vehicles of Millionaires: Model-Year
- 4-2: Motor Vehicles of Millionaires: Purchase Price
- 4-3: Motor Vehicle Acquisition Orientations of Millionaires
- 4-4: Economic Lifestyles of Motor Vehicle Acquisition Types
- 5-1: Economic Outpatient Care Given by Affluent Parents
- 5-2: Receivers vs. Nonreceivers of Cash Gifts
- 6-1: The Likelihood of Receiving a Substantial Inheritance: Occupational Contrasts
- 6-2: The Likelihood of Receiving Substantial Financial Gifts: Occupational Contrasts
- 6-3: Mean Annual Earnings: Men vs. Women
- 6-4: Corporate Executive—Gifts and Inheritance
- 6-5: Entrepreneur—Gifts and Inheritance
- 6-6: Physicians—Gifts and Inheritance
- 7-1: Estimated Allocations of Estates Valued at $1 Million or More
- 7-2: Estimated Fees for Estate Services
- 7-3: Predicted Number and Value of Estates of $1 Million or More
- 7-4: Predicted Number of Estates Valued at $1 Million or More Rank Ordered by Number of Estates by State for the Year 2000
- 7-5: Estimated Number of Millionaire Households in the Year 2005
- 8-1: Rankings of Selected Categories of Sole Proprietorships
- 8-2: The Top Ten Most Profitable Sole-Proprietorship Businesses
- 8-3: Selected Businesses/Occupations of Self-Employed Millionaires
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