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    Stop Acting Rich: ...And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire
    Stop Acting Rich: ...And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire
    Stop Acting Rich: ...And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire
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    Stop Acting Rich: ...And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire

    Written by Thomas J. Stanley

    Narrated by Fred Stella

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    The bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals easy ways to build real wealth

    With well over two million of his books sold, and huge praise from many media outlets, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley is a recognized and highly respected authority on how the wealthy act and think. Now, in Stop Acting Rich: …And Start Living Like a Millionaire, he details how the less affluent have fallen into the elite luxury brand trap that keeps them from acquiring wealth and details how to get out of it by emulating the working rich as opposed to the super elite.

    • Puts wealth in perspective and shows you how to live rich without spending more
    • Details why we spend lavishly and how to stop this destructive cycle
    • Discusses how being “rich” means more than just big houses and luxury cars

    A defensive strategy for tough times, Stop Acting Rich shows readers how to live a rich, happy life through accumulating more wealth and using it to achieve the type of financial freedom that will create true happiness and fulfillment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 28, 2009
    ISBN9781423398141
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    Thomas J. Stanley

    Dr. Thomas J. Stanley began studying the affluent in 1973. His coauthored best-selling book, The Millionaire Next Door, released in 1996, has sold 2,000,000 copies. Thomas followed his first book with Marketing to the Affluent, ranked among the ten outstanding business books by the editors of Best of Business Quarterly. In 1999, he published The Millionaire Mind, which explored America's financial elite and how they became so. The Millionaire Mind has sold 750,000 copies. The author lives in Atlanta, holds a doctorate of business administration from the University of Georgia in Athens and was formerly a professor of marketing at Georgia State University.

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    • 3/5
      As someone who doesn’t drink, the whole alcohol part of the book seemed pretty long. Seemed like he drew too much of this book from that finding.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Truly one of the best books out. I would so much recommend it to anyone. Truly opens your eyes on how the 1% live. If you want to learn and continue to learn. Start now do not wait any longer.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Unfortunately there’s no substance in this book, I’m about an hour in and there was only rambling about what rich people display.
    • 5/5
      Informative. Filed with statistics on the average millionaire. Strongly recommended for the youth
    • 5/5
      This was an amazing book, had me entertained the whole time. Very informative
    • 3/5
      Liked his other books much better.
      This one is very repetitive imo.
    • 5/5
      Great information and useful for anyone who is interested in subject of money.
    • 2/5
      Not nearly as good as his other books. Sounds more like an infomercial read by an AI Bot
    • 3/5
      Excessively long and unnecessary crusade against wine drinking. Other than that , its an ok book.
    • 4/5
      Very interesting book, it exposes the truth about how the marketing sector has sold us lies and how the real rich people actually live.
      Thanks
    • 3/5
      The entire point of the book had been made within the first hour. Good points, though perhaps overstated - but the remaining time is essentially a repeated and increasingly vehement rehashing of the same point.

      And I can’t help but wonder whether he received sponsorship from Toyota and Seiko.
    • 3/5
      Good initially but fairly repetitive. Each chapter has essentially the same message: live below your means and don’t try to keep up with the consumption of those around you. He also warns against lifestyle inflation.
    • 2/5
      I was disappointed by this book. I really enjoyed Thomas Stanley's earlier work "The Millionaire Next Door" and was hoping for some new insight in his latest work. However, "Stop Acting Rich" had nothing new to say. It only repeated what had already been covered in "The Millionaire Next Door". I don't understand why one needs to write a new book if there is no new material to discuss. Stanley's earlier work is far superior to this and I would not waste my time with this book.
    • 2/5
      I won this through a goodreads giveaway, which makes me reluctant to rip on it, but this book was not good.

      I haven't read any other of Thomas J. Stanley's books, but I have a feeling this one doesn't really cover any new territory. Stanley references the 08-09 Financial Crisis currently going on, but not in any meaningful way. The material covered is enough for a good essay, not a book. It took me back to my college days where you have to get to a specific word count, so you keep repeating the same information to fill paragraphs.

      His basic message is that there are two ways to get rich - (he uses a football analogy) either with a great offense (high income) or a great defense (save and spend less). As individuals, we often try to appear rich, spending money to impress others, ironically ruining our chances of ever becoming rich.

      I didn't have a problem with the material, its just that I kept waiting for the book to tell me something I didn't already know, or wasn't already covered by the preface.

      The author did do a little bit of research, but the areas he covered didn't reveal anything deep about the subject. I don't really care what brand of watches people buy or even worse, which brand of vodka. He must have mentioned Grey Goose 50 times. I also could have told him that people who spend too much are going to be unhappier than those who don't live paycheck to paycheck, regardless of how big the paycheck is. The things I wanted to see analyzed were things like single vs married, wife vs husband in spending, Dem vs Rep, Education reached, Ivy League vs state schools, no children vs lots of children etc etc. The only one he mentioned of any interest to me was the way people were raised. Stanley claims that children who were brought up in neighborhoods with neighbors richer than themselves end up to be big spenders. I'm living proof that's not the case. I thought it was a over-emphasized point and wasn't offset by any other data like where in the country people lived, if they were popular or shy, male/female, the era in which they grew up (Hello - this coming generation has ideas about money that have nothing to do with their parents finances.) Also, it seems to me that people who habitually spend more than they make (or as much as they make) tend to be bad with money in general. This was not mentioned at all. What I mean is, over spenders (or the acting rich) buy at the wrong time, sell at a loss, buy stuff that doesn't retain its value, make bad job decisions, use emotion-based decision making and the like. Write a book about that!

      I've read other non-fiction books that are set up similarly with charts and analysis - I just found this one dry, boring, and without much effort. I never found the point of why I should care beyond the message: buy only what you need and save the rest of your money. Maybe I'm the wrong target audience. This book is a dud.
    • 3/5
      This is a decent update of the earlier books. It was published after the housing and stock markets started crashing and periodically touches on that as a warning. (Although it's pretty strange that a 2009 author would consider a cellphone a luxury item like he still does.) This edition probably wouldn't be very helpful by itself as it doesn't go back and repeat the basics in the original volume. Like the first book, it does get redundant. But that's not such a bad thing in this context. The basic goal is to get people to reconsider their need for particular luxury items and everyone has a different trigger. So by having a chapter each for cars, watches, vodka, wine, etc., then everyone is covered. And you can just skim -- or even skip -- the chapters discussing items you don't overspend on. He does customize each product. You don't see the same argument against each luxury good. I did quibble with how he only looks at the relative performance of luxury cars and completely ignores the value of aesthetics.His examples are still almost exclusively 50-65 year old men, but part of that is to explain how they got where they are so that younger people today can end up there too. Plenty of people who are wealthy in their 30s and 40s turn around and lose it all, so there are arguments against including them in the case studies. He has also written a book specifically about women and money, which I haven't read. But I wasn't impressed that one of his examples of how women are naturally more frugal than men (?!) was that they spend less on average per pair of shoes. Completely ignoring the angle of how *many* pairs they're buying relative to men.It also bothered me a little that he regularly referred back to his original book and its success without ever mentioning his co-author on it, who was not involved in this one.