Earning Money is Good but Keeping Some of it is Even Better
We all know people around us who are really rich. You know, the guy driving his expensive car from his gated neighborhood to the country club on Saturday morning or the family down the street with the big SUV to pull the boat and the camper (hopefully not at the same time) when they’re not at home watching their 60” Plasma HDTV. Without really knowing their finances though, are we sure that they really are wealthy?
How do you define wealth?
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Book Review: The Millionaire Next Door
Authors: Thomas Stanley, PhD & William Danko, PhD
My very first book review
Since early 2007, I have read a number of personal finance books during my search to ensure that I was on the right financial path. As I search for other books to read, I also found it tremendously helpful to see what other people with similar interests were reading. My goal is to pass on this information to you as well. I hope to give you a brief overview of the book and the authors, touch on the good and bad in the book, and finally give you my personal recommendation for whether you should borrow the book, buy the book, or act like the book doesn’t exist.
The Millionaire Next Door is the second book I read during this process and it still is what I consider one of the most important to righting my financial ship (shoot, I just gave away the ending!). Click here to continue reading…

