Category Archive: Wealth

Jan
20

Do You Have As Much Wealth As You Should Have?

Defining wealth is pretty tricky.  A guy with a hundred goats in Morocco, who leases his land, could be considered wealthy.  But if you bought 100 goats in Canada and leased land for them to graze on, you’d be a pauper, if you didn’t have (another) day job. Thomas Stanley, author of The Millionaire Next …

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Dec
16

Can a Jaguar-driving, high salaried, mansion-dwelling family really be broke?

I’m going to share a crazy, personal story with you. Before I read about Thomas Stanley’s studies of the wealthy, I always assumed that this personal experience of mine was a “one-off”– as likely to happen again as a band of mice singing Christmas carols for a family of cats. But Stanley’s studies reveal that …

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Dec
08

The Joneses Just Pretend to Be Rich!

Relax!  Most of your rich-looking neighbours or the people who we think are wealthy are just pretending to be rich , according to Thomas Stanley. They drive fancy cars, live in flashy houses and earn salaries that support their consumption habits. But the majority of high-salaried high-rollers aren’t rich at all.  If you’ve been looking at some of …

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