Stop Acting Rich: And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire

by Thomas J. Stanley Narrated by Fred Stella

Overview

With the current financial crisis, high unemployment, and tight credit, you may be saying to yourself: "Who is acting rich these days? We're barely making ends meet." The reality is the recession may have caused us to take a breather, but every indication is that we will pick up right where we left off when gentler economic winds blow again. Before you spend another dime, listen to this audiobook and understand how to become rich instead of act rich.

It all starts with where you live. Live in a prestige neighborhood and you will spend more on everything from your car to your watch. Real millionaires understand that living in communities where their neighbors have less net worth than they do naturally leads to spending less. It's easier to be rich when keeping up with the Joneses hardly costs anything. Life satisfaction comes not from cruising down the highway in a chunk of your net worth, but from having the financial resources to choose-to spend time with family and friends, to volunteer, to pursue interests.

Bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind and leading authority on the wealthy, Dr. Thomas Stanley uncovers the truth that few people become rich by way of a high income, and even fewer high-income people are truly rich. The good news is that almost anyone can become wealthy-even without a super high income-if you would just stop acting . . . and instead start living like a rich person.

Editorial Reviews

AUGUST 2010 - AudioFile

Listeners not familiar with Dr. Stanley’s previous books will be moved by his most powerful message to date on the importance of frugality in building real wealth. He uses fascinating research on the spending habits of the wealthy and those who aspire to be wealthy to show how the latter group defeats itself by spending conspicuously on things that really don’t make them happy. The truly wealthy, he says, put more energy into maintaining their integrity and discipline, and being honest with themselves about what’s really important to them. Fred Stella dials in the perfect level of earnestness for this immensely helpful personal finance audio. His palette of tones and varied intensity are at once calming, pleasingly arresting, and ultimately easy to hear. T.W. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169526745
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	09/28/2009
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	972,283

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