Stop Acting Rich

And Start Living Like a Real Millionaire

By: Thomas J. Stanley

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

With the current financial crisis, high unemployment, and tight credit, you may be saying to yourself: "Who is acting rich these days? We're barely making ends meet." The reality is that the recession may have caused us to take a breather, but every indication is that we will pick up right where we left off when gentler economic winds blow again. Before you spend another dime, listen to this audiobook and understand how to become rich instead of acting rich.

It all starts with where you live. Live in a prestige neighborhood and you will spend more on everything from your car to your watch. Real millionaires understand that living in communities where their neighbors have less net worth than they do naturally leads to spending less. It's easier to be rich when keeping up with the Joneses hardly costs anything. Life satisfaction comes not from cruising down the highway in a chunk of your net worth, but from having the financial resources to choose - to spend time with family and friends, to volunteer, to pursue interests.

Best-selling author of The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind and leading authority on the wealthy, Dr. Thomas Stanley uncovers the truth that few people become rich by way of a high income, and even fewer high-income people are truly rich. The good news is that almost anyone can become wealthy - even without a super high income. Just stop acting...and instead start living like a rich person.

©2009 Thomas J. Stanley (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

The evolution of poverty

This book is a a psychological thriller for the financially illiterate. Excellent read, buy a Rolex, your gonna need to upgrade your clothes, upgrade your clothes, your gonna need a better vehicle… a luxury vehicle looks odd in a blue collar neighborhood so you gotta move to a better home. This book is superb. Bravo!

great insight

loved the book
great insight on how the rich live and really act. It really put alot of things in perspective.

Muy ilustrativo

Muy buen compendio de resultados obtenidos sobre el comportamiento de loa millonarios (y los que sólo pretenden serlo) en Estados Unidos. Muy ilustrativo y revelador.

Inspiring & revealing to say the least.

Inspiring & revealing to say the least. Indeed, not all that glitters is gold. Spending less than what one earns is the key element to join the wealthy.

great expansion of "the millionaire next door"

I loved the statistic comparison of what people are buying. Really puts it in perspective in terms of why you buy what you do and whether or not it's the smartest decision

Good but repetitive

Overall I enjoyed the book but I found it to be very repetitive....literally repeating blocks of some earlier chapters as though there was a cut and paste mistake during audio editing.

I wish I had read this when I was 25

All the messages I received as a sales professional, growing up and getting better were completely different. I like being able to think of the question: who is getting rich if I purchase this?is it me?
It’s hard to believe that this book was written around 2005, and now in 2023, the consumption message is even worse. If I could give a gift to a young person, just getting started, I would have them focus on books like this learning about money early can save you independence, freedom from Debt, and help you recognize what’s important and what isn’t.

A classic for self help and personal finance

This book is contrary to many I’ve read and for that reason alone I recommend it.

Happy people live below their means

I did not expect I would like this book but I did. Especially the last two chapters. I could not relate much on the topic of wines and watches but find them interesting as well. I will let my kids read this.

Statistics

This book is a great statistical analysis of what it means to really be and act rich without showing it.