"Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing." Loral Langemeier, The Millionare Maker
There's no dearth of comments and suggestions for books to read that focus on becoming a millionaire. It seems like every PF blog has a suggested reading list from the millionaire genre, a phrase used by Nina over at Sitting Pretty.
Although I haven't read any of them, several of them keep showing up on PF blogs on a regular basis, The Millionaire Maker being one of them. One of my New Year's resolutions that relates to my financial life is to start reading a few of them. But because I'm watching where every penny goes, I don't intend to buy these books; I'll check them out of the library instead. This means I'll finially have to get off my duff one Saturday--I mean next Saturday--and head down to the local library to get a card.
Will I ever be a millionaire? I think it's very possible--even at this late stage of the game, and I've been thinking about what this word means to me for a while now. It's not the money per se that I'm after but rather the freedom to do what I wanted on any given day that I think a million dollars would bring. Of course, there's a fallacy in this thinking, too: you don't need something external to solve what is essentially an internal need. My sense of security comes within and there's nothing stopping me--except a life of poverty--that would permit me to have "freedom." So, what I really mean to say is that a million dollars would allow me to have a comfortable life, pursuing whatever interests I had whenever I wanted.
There's no dearth of comments and suggestions for books to read that focus on becoming a millionaire. It seems like every PF blog has a suggested reading list from the millionaire genre, a phrase used by Nina over at Sitting Pretty.
Although I haven't read any of them, several of them keep showing up on PF blogs on a regular basis, The Millionaire Maker being one of them. One of my New Year's resolutions that relates to my financial life is to start reading a few of them. But because I'm watching where every penny goes, I don't intend to buy these books; I'll check them out of the library instead. This means I'll finially have to get off my duff one Saturday--I mean next Saturday--and head down to the local library to get a card.
Will I ever be a millionaire? I think it's very possible--even at this late stage of the game, and I've been thinking about what this word means to me for a while now. It's not the money per se that I'm after but rather the freedom to do what I wanted on any given day that I think a million dollars would bring. Of course, there's a fallacy in this thinking, too: you don't need something external to solve what is essentially an internal need. My sense of security comes within and there's nothing stopping me--except a life of poverty--that would permit me to have "freedom." So, what I really mean to say is that a million dollars would allow me to have a comfortable life, pursuing whatever interests I had whenever I wanted.
posted by Tightwad Tim at 4:04 AM
1 Comments:
2 more inspiring reads are, "The Millionaire Next Door" and "The Richest Man in Babylon."
Both should be easy to find at a good library, and both are very much in line with the quote you provide at the top of your post. Millionaires typically do not flaunt it.
A quote I love (though I can't tell you who said it):
"The best (or fastest? can't remember) way to get rich fast is to get rich slow."
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