Frugality isn’t about being cheap—it’s about being free.
The majority of self-made millionaires spend less than they earn year after year.
They delay gratification, ignore status pressure, and redirect savings into assets that grow.
Living modestly isn’t sacrifice—it’s strategy.
It gives you space to invest, save, and move through life on your terms.

Frugality Builds Wealth

Millionaires don't hope for wealth—they plan for it.
They schedule time to review their finances, make informed adjustments, and stay focused on long-term goals.
Even one hour a week can keep you aligned.
Financial growth is about intentional, repeated actions—not dramatic one-time events.
Think of it as a weekly meeting with your future.

Time and Money Are Budgeted

This book destroys the myth of flashy millionaires. The real rich? They clip coupons, drive old cars, and quietly stack assets. Through research and real-life profiles, it uncovers the habits that actually build wealth—and they’re the opposite of what you’d expect. If you want freedom, not just status, start here.

"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence. The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family's wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America's rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.

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