July 7, 2005

Books To Make You A Millionaire?

Andy Serwer has penned the article Can These Books Really Make You a Millionaire? for Fortune's annual retirement issue. Not to spoil it for you, but he thinks the books won't help you. We generally think the same thing. You'll notice we don't talk much about the personal finance category, because it really seems like alot of the same.

Andy says Amazon will give you 40,000 results on "millionaire". To begin to show ridiculous it is, I am going to list all of the titles from Andy's article :

  • The Millionaire Next Door
  • The Millionaire Mind
  • Millionaire Women Next Door
  • The Automatic Millionaire
  • The Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate
  • Lunchtime Millionaire
  • The Instant Millionaire
  • The Accidental Millionaire
  • How to Marry a Multi-Millionaire
  • Becoming a Millionaire God's Way
  • Millionaire by 40
  • Millionaire by 26
  • How to Be a Teenage Millionaire
  • Discovering the Millionaire in Every Child
  • Cracking the Millionaire Code
  • The One Minute Millioniare

Sorry about leaving out the links. There are just too many... :)

Posted by Todd S. at July 7, 2005 8:03 AM
Comments

Thanks a million for this.

Posted by: David Zinger at July 7, 2005 11:06 AM

I understand where you are coming from. There truly there are a myriad of "how to get rich" books out there and the word "Millionaire" tends to be a popular one to attract readers, it has been for many many years. However, I would think that you could give some of the authors a little credit, I'm sure that there is a wealth of information in most of these books. Unless you've read the books you've mentioned personally, then I would say you really shouldn't mention them at all.

Posted by: Emerald Bloom at July 8, 2005 12:49 PM

I've read a few of these books. I think they are good at making you think about the process of wealth accumulation. Some of the conclusions of this thinking process arent common wisdom.

Posted by: aga98 at July 15, 2005 10:50 AM
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