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Stanley<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/William-D.-Danko\/e\/B076P2JV8L%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share\">William D. Danko<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this book, you\u2019ll discover all the secrets of the rich. You will see that a financially prosperous life is not the prerogative of the elite, meaning that it\u2019s not a right they have because of their social position. You will see that most millionaires are ordinary people; just like us!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on studies conducted among American millionaires, it analyzes their buying behavior and their ways of spending, saving and investing. With statistics to back it up, it offers an intimate glimpse into their lives: what car they drive, how much they spent on a pair of shoes, a watch, and so on. You&#8217;ll find out what professions have helped them become and stay rich. Far from prejudice and sensationalism, this book is probably the most comprehensive study ever made on the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sitrakaratsimba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81UNbG9TqL.jpg\" alt=\"the millionaire next door summary\" width=\"410\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sitrakaratsimba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81UNbG9TqL.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.sitrakaratsimba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/81UNbG9TqL-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 1: Meet the millionaire next door<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Portrait of a millionaire<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millionaires do not usually become rich through inheritance or graduation from a famous university and do not live in posh neighborhoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the contrary, they reject a hedonistic lifestyle and excessive spending. After conducting detailed research, the authors of the millionaire next door state with conviction: we are used to associating wealth with people from the &#8220;glamorous&#8221; world, but in reality they are only a small part of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, the real millionaire can live right next to you! Thomas J. Stanley reveals the rules, habits and daily behavior of millionaires.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>From the book<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the book for example, the authors ask who the prototypical American millionaire is and what they would tell you about themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The typical millionaire is a fifty-seven-year-old male, married with three children. About 70 percent of us earn 80 percent or more of our household\u2019s income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, about one in five of us is retired. About two-thirds of us who are working are self-employed. Interestingly, self-employed people make up less than 20 percent of the workers in America but account for two-thirds of the millionaires. Also, three out of four of us who are self-employed consider ourselves to be entrepreneurs. Most of the others are self-employed professionals, such as doctors and accountants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the types of businesses we are in could be classified as dull normal. We are welding contractors, auctioneers, rice farmers, owners of mobile-home parks, pest controllers, coin and stamp dealers, and paving contractors.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other characteristics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have an average household net worth of $3.7 million. Of course, some of our cohorts have accumulated much more. Nearly 6 percent have a net worth of over $10 million. Again, these people skew our average upward. The typical (median, or 50th percentile) millionaire household has a net worth of $1.6 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of us have never felt at a disadvantage because we did not receive any inheritance. About 80 percent of us are first-generation affluent<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We live well below our means. We wear inexpensive suits and drive American-made cars. Only a minority of us drive the current-model-year automobile. Only a minority ever lease our motor vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a group, we believe that education is extremely important for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. We spend heavily for the education of our offspring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are fastidious investors. On average, we invest nearly 20 percent of our household realized income each year. Most of us invest at least 15 percent. Seventy-nine percent of us have at least one account with a brokerage company. But we make our own investment decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Wealthy defined<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While most people refer to wealthy as people who have an abundance of material possessions; the authors don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They define wealthy differently, not in terms of material possessions. According to the authors, many people who display a high consumption lifestyle have little or no investments, appreciable assets, income-producing assets, common stocks, bonds, private businesses, oil\/gas rights, or timber land. Conversely, those people whom we define as being wealthy get much more pleasure from owning substantial amounts of appreciable assets than from displaying a high-consumption lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Millionaire Next Door first gives two essential definitions of wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The nominal definition of wealthy<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors consider $1 million (the difference between a person&#8217;s assets and liabilities) as the wealth threshold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on this definition, only 3.5 million of the 100 million households in America are considered wealthy. Approximately 95% of millionaires in America have between $1 million and $10 million in wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is because this level of wealth can be achieved in one generation and by many Americans that the co-authors decided to retain it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Another definition<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s not so much the accumulated wealth threshold that matters, but your ability to accumulate wealth based on your annual pre-tax income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko distinguish 3 categories of individuals :<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PAWs (Prodigious Accumulator of Wealth) who accumulate a lot of wealth;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UAW (Under Accumulator of Wealth) who accumulate little wealth (and therefore spend it all);<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AAW (Average Accumulator of Wealth) who accumulate an average level of wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out which category you fall into, use the following formula (not including your inheritances):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wealth Threshold = [total annual realized income (before taxes) x your age] \/ 10<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result is what your net worth should be. For example, a 41-year-old individual with an income of $560,000 and a personal fortune of $1,100,000 is not considered wealthy. According to the formula, he should be at 560,000 * 41 = $3,416,000 of personal wealth. He belongs to the UAW category. Everything depends on the standard of living to be maintained.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>You or your ancestors?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of America\u2019s millionaires are first-generation rich. How is it possible for people from modest backgrounds to become millionaires in one generation? Why is it that so many people with similar socioeconomic backgrounds never accumulate even modest amounts of wealth?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most people who become millionaires have confidence in their own abilities. They do not spend time worrying about whether or not their parents were wealthy. They do not believe that one must be born wealthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Statistics<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this manner, if you believe that all millionaires are born with a spoon in their mouth, the following statistics should be of interest to you:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than half of them did not inherit more than one dollar;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">91% of them did not receive more than one dollar as a gift from the possession of a family business;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than half received no scholarships from their families to pay for their education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of origins, the population group of English descent does not have the highest concentration of millionaire households in the United States. The group of Russian descent is the first to come in first place (transmission of the entrepreneurial spirit from generation to generation), followed by the Scots (transmission of the values of economy and discipline from generation to generation), and in third place by the Hungarians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is probably due to the fact that many immigrants from the East who became rich did not imitate the lifestyle of American consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 2: Frugal, frugal, frugal: they live below their means<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Two important definitions to consider<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frugal\/Economic: behavior that views economics as a use of resources;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spender: lifestyle marked by hyperconsumption and reckless spending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frugality is the basis of enrichment. Millionaires are not big spenders and ignore conspicuous consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few figures to illustrate the purchasing behavior of millionaires:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50% of them have never spent more than $399 on a suit and 75% more than $599;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And 50% of them have never spent more than $140 for a pair of shoes and 75% more than $199;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50% of them have never spent more than $235 on a watch and 75% more than $1125.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many Americans with six-figure incomes will never be millionaires. The standard of living they choose to display requires a level of spending that prevents them from accumulating enough wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>A recipe<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most important recipes for millionaires to achieve their status is the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They become millionaires by budgeting (they know how much they spend each year on food, clothing, etc.) and controlling their spending. Once they become millionaires, they maintain their lifestyle in the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Daily expenses<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The American millionaire budgets and keeps accounts for all of his expenses, starting with daily expenses such as clothing and food. He is convinced that the management of his business applies in the same way to his personal finances.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Credit Cards<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like most American households, American millionaires have a MasterCard and a Visa card. And that&#8217;s all!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Life goals<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who achieve financial independence have an above-average ability to visualize the future benefits of setting their goals. Does this make them happy? No one knows, but what is certain is that :<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financially independent people are happier than the average person in the same income and age category who is not financially secure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">66% of the millionaires surveyed in the study spend a lot of their free time planning their financial future and invest a lot of time in their financial education (investments, protection, etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast, the financial plan of UAWs boils down to spending everything they touch. They often buy on credit or at best save to finance their expenses. They do not hold securities and their parents have never invested anything. The typical UAW is usually a compulsive consumer. The accumulation of wealth is not a source of motivation for him or her.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Guiding unconscious message<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main unconscious message that guides him in his choice of money is the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You earn money to spend. If you need to spend more, then you need to earn more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another adage is characteristic of millionaires as opposed to UAWs who earn high incomes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To build wealth, you have to minimize your taxable realized income and maximize your unrealized income (wealth\/capital appreciation without cash flow generation).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is simply because income tax is often the most important household expense of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The environment also counts enormously in terms of your future wealth. One of the rules to follow when buying your principal residence is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are not wealthy, but plan to become wealthy one day, never buy a home that requires borrowing more than twice the total annual household income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is therefore easier to become rich if you do not live in a high social environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 3: Time, energy and money<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3><b>They allocate their time, energy and money efficiently; in ways conducive to building wealth<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Efficiency and regular monitoring are the key words in wealth accumulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PAWs spend twice as much time per month planning their investments as UAWs do. (PAWs allocate nearly twice the number of hours per month to planning their financial investments as UAWs do.) They know exactly where every penny of their income goes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For them, money is a resource that should never be wasted. They voluntarily live below their means. One wealth manager confided to researchers that &#8220;only clients with considerable wealth want to know exactly how much their family spends in each category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the best advice one can give to anyone is to start investing early in their adult life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, only the considerably wealthy clients want to know exactly how much their family spends in each spending category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PAWs, on the other hand, are much less inquisitive when it comes to paying for quality financial services. On average, they allocate about 15% of their annual pre-tax income to investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time management also differs between UAWs and PAWs. There is an inverse relationship between the time spent buying luxury goods such as cars or clothing and the time spent planning and defining future financial goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">95% of millionaires own shares. They are medium and long term investors. Only 9% of them keep their shares for less than a month, 20% for a year or two on average, 25% for 2 to 4 years and 13% for 4 to 6 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Criteria for millionaires<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, it is essential to develop your recruitment skills when choosing your financial advisor. The criteria for millionaires are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; multiple references,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; an official diploma,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; a credit check,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; several interviews,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; have completed a detailed application for the job,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; documents attesting to the applicant&#8217;s ability to perform the requested tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your propensity to accumulate wealth is directly correlated to your ability to recruit top-notch financial advisors!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 4: You aren\u2019t what you drive<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>They believe that financial independence is more important than displaying high social status<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as one shouldn\u2019t judge by appearances, the car does not make the millionaire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prodigious accumulators of wealth have understood one thing well: what you are does not depend on what you buy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After housing, the car is often the most important expense of a household.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only 25% of millionaires have bought a new car. By doing so, they save on average 20% on the purchase price of their vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the purchase price of a vehicle in America was $21,000 at the time of the study, the average purchase price of a vehicle for a millionaire was $24,000; a price that is only slightly higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 50% of the vehicles purchased by millionaires were at least 2 years old at the time of purchase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the authors were organizing a meeting as part of their study, they looked around the parking lot expecting to see some nice cars. They saw a majority of Ford, General Motors and few sports cars. &#8220;These people aren&#8217;t looking for status, they buy their cars by the kilo! &#8220;they said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>An interesting anecdote<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors relay the following anecdote that a millionaire told them:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something interesting happened recently. I found out that someone was going to give me a surprise gift. This gift, a Rolls-Royce! It was ordered especially for me with special colors, a special interior&#8230; They had ordered it about 4 months before I discovered it and we still had 5 months before delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you tell someone who offers you a Rolls-Royce that you don&#8217;t want it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have read correctly, this gentleman to whom his relatives wish to offer one of the most luxurious cars in the world is about to refuse this gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rolls-Royce represents nothing important in my life. Nor do I want to have to change my lifestyle to accommodate the ownership of this car. I can&#8217;t throw fish in the back seat like I usually do when I go fishing. Also I take everyone to the lake. I fish there every weekend. We are one of the best freshwater fishing spots in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can see, the millionaire doesn&#8217;t care about the potential social status that comes with owning a luxury car.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 5: Economic outpatient care<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Their parents did not provide economic outpatient care<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economic outpatient car (EOC) is a payment that parents make to their children on a regular basis to help them get started in working life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is as follows: having had to go through difficult financial times themselves in their youth, parents want to avoid this situation for their children by giving them a financial boost until their situation stabilizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In practice, children who have received EOCs are often less successful accumulators of wealth than those who have never received EOCs. They earn 98% of the income of those who do not receive EOC. On the other hand, their wealth averages only 47% of that of those who do not receive EOCs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Two explanations<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are two explanations for this phenomenon:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This financial assistance gives a false impression of financial security, which leads to overconsumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having had to overcome these financial difficulties in their youth, parents had no choice but to learn how to manage their money. Passing this test was certainly a determining factor in their financial success. Had they themselves received EOCs, they may never have reached their current financial situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 6: Affirmative action, family style<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Their parents did not provide economic outpatient care<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The children of millionaires are mostly financially independent. Independence is a deeply rooted value in this kind of family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to make their children financially independent, the authors have put together a list of 10 tips:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1- Never tell children that their parents are wealthy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2- No matter how wealthy you are, teach your children discipline and frugality<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3- Never tell a child how rich his parents are. The goal is to prevent children from getting used to the high status\/high income lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4 &#8211; No matter how rich you are, teach your children discipline and frugality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5- Make sure your children don&#8217;t realize how rich you are until they have established a mature, disciplined adult life and a good profession.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>More tips<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6- Minimize discussions of the items that each child and grandchild will inherit or receive as gifts. Promises made lightly are a source of discord and conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7- Never give money or important gifts to your children as part of a negotiating strategy. Do so only out of love, obligation or kindness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8- Stay out of your children&#8217;s family problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9- Do not try to compete with your children. Never start a conversation with &#8220;you know when I was your age, I already had&#8230;&#8221;. Often children cannot or do not want to compete with their parents. The life goals of parents and children can be diametrically opposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10- Always remember that your children are individuals. What works for one may not work for the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emphasize your children&#8217;s accomplishments, regardless of their size. Teach them to achieve goals, not just to consume. Earning more to spend more shouldn&#8217;t be a source of motivation for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell your children that many things are more important than money. Health, longevity, happiness, a happy family, good friends, respect, honesty, etc. are values to be valued. Money is the icing on the cake.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 7: Find your niche<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>They are proficient in targeting market opportunities<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the rich excel at one thing, it&#8217;s looking for opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A phrase often seen on the internet indicates that to earn 1 million dollars, you can either sell 100,000 products at $10 or 10 products at $100,000. The rich generally prefer the second category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the authors of the millionaire next door, there are significant business opportunities for those who target the affluent, the children of the affluent, and the widows and widowers of the affluent. Very often those who supply the affluent become wealthy themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conversely, many people, including business owners, self-employed professionals, sales professionals, and even some salaried workers, never produce high incomes. Perhaps it\u2019s because their clients and customers have little or no money!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millionaires account for more than half of private wealth in America. They know that their population is an interesting population for business. One of the 2 authors of this book has moreover released another book especially dedicated to selling to this population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professions with this category of clientele are therefore privileged: specialized accountant, wealth manager, promoter, doctor\/dentist, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The millionaire next door summary Chapter 8: jobs: millionaires versus heirs<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>They chose the right occupation<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can\u2019t predict if someone is a millionaire by the type of business he\u2019s in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no predetermined list of businesses to get in if you want to become a millionaire overnight. If you believe so, you\u2019ll be disappointed. The authors found that you can&#8217;t predict whether someone is a millionaire just by looking at their profession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where millionaires stand out is not so much in the profession as in the way they practice it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This quote from a multimillionaire who participated in this study sums up the chapter well:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of people who don&#8217;t like their jobs. I&#8217;ll tell you honestly; a guy who works, who loves his job, who can&#8217;t wait to get up in the morning and go to work, that&#8217;s my [success] criteria. That&#8217;s the way I&#8217;ve always been. 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