So, Mr. Stanely, for the money: How can I get richer? Subscribe to the cheap date, hurry up and wait philosophy, Stanley says. That is, spend less, save more, and repeat. To hear him tell it, millionaires next door are no rocket scientists. They didn’t get rich quickly, and neither will most of us. (Unless [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Thomas Stanley Interview Outtakes'
Thomas Stanley on Creating Your Own Wealth
October 22nd, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: cheap date · hurry up and wait · investing · spending: duh factor
Thomas Stanley on Wealth and the Myth of Upward Mobility
October 21st, 2008 No Comments
If you like nice stuff — and hey, who doesn’t — it follows that more cash equals more. I mean, what’s wrong with buying the luxury dream car if you can afford it, right? Thomas Stanley says that’s an assumption about upward mobility that leads us astray. “People want to conform. You get out of [...]
Tags: assumptions · conforming · Planning · priorities
Saving Is In Again: Thomas Stanley on the Glutton Economy
October 15th, 2008 4 Comments
Thanks to this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance at Budgets are $exy for pointing to this post. Have a minute? Check out the roundup there. I hope to highlight at least one post I loved later this week. Hemispheres, the United in-flight magazine, just published a short piece I wrote last spring about saving to [...]
Tags: Glutton Economy · Hemispheres · Hey big spender · The Millionaire Next Door · The Nobody Treatment · Thomas Stanley
