While a million bucks certainly doesn’t buy what it used to, an 8/15 _USA Today_ story said it remains the monetary benchmark of having “truly made it.” As a result, millionaire madness continues to permeate our culture. Game shows with million dollar prizes are among the biggest hits, books offering to teach us the “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” and how become an “Automatic Millionaire” sell like crazy, multi-million dollar lottery prizes capture news headlines, seminars claiming that “One Weekend Can Make You a Millionaire” pack in attendees, and on it goes.
h3(matt). Matt’s View
p(matt). The one millionaire-oriented book I recommend is “The Millionaire Next Door”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0671015206&tag=wwwfinancia00-20&camp=1789&creative=9325. For every Oprah or Paris whose jet-set lifestyle adorns the covers of checkout line magazines, the book proves that most wealthy people have neither unusual names nor unusually lavish lifestyles. The book details the habits of those who excel at building wealth and it turns out that they’re surprisingly accessible to all: using a household budget, living well beneath their means, and, largely because of their frugality, setting aside a sizeable portion of their income for saving and investing. Now if only the best (or most beautiful?) budgeters could make the cover of People magazine. Maybe Quicken needs a celebrity endorser.
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