The Millionaire Next Door

So the name of the book is The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy.

Mm.

It's by Thomas J. Stanley, PhD, and William D. Danko, PhD.

Two guys.

Two guys, and two, importantly, two academics.

Yeah.

So this book comes out in 1996.

It is apparently on The New York Times bestseller list for more than three years.

It sells many millions of copies.

It's extremely influential.

It basically launched a whole genre of book, this, like, ordinary millionaire book.

Like, millionaires are all around us.

You can be an ordinary millionaire.

I didn't know this until I was reading up on it, but Rich Dad Poor Dad is, like, a rip-off of this book.

Oh.

Like, it's like a dumber version of this book.

It comes out a year after this book.

So within a couple years, we get The One Minute Millionaire, The Top Ten Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class, Millionaire by 30, The Millionaire Maker, The Automatic Millionaire, The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, Cracking the Millionaire Code.

In 1999, there's one called Smart Women Finish Rich, which I imagine a guy named Rich carrying around bars and, like, showing to women.

Can we circle back? Is there a way that we can just talk about The One Minute Millionaire? Because that is-

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... pretty quick and I feel like maybe worth a read.

That's like the four-minute abs.

You're like, "This is even faster.

This is three-minute abs.