The Millionaire Next Door
Ratings14
Average rating3.9
Like most financial books I've read, I wish I had read them earlier in life. This book was really good. It was very “our studies show”, followed by charts and percentages. But the information was interested regardless of the 1996 original publish date.
I think the amounts of millionaires have changed and maybe the businesses they are in but the core concept of the book (Prodigious Accumulators of Wealth vs Under Accumulators of Wealth) still has value.
This is an excellent book with a great look into the truly financially wealthy in America. It will correct your perspective on who really has wealth and who just spends as if they do. It covers PAWS (Prodigious Accumulators of Wealth) and UAWS (Under Accumulators of Wealth) and characteristics of both. This can be a very enlightening book.
The only reason I gave this book a 4 out of 5 is because the author hasn't updated some of the statistics since the late 90's. Other than that, the principles are all sound and make sense to me. Great book.