Do you know how to master the inner game of wealth? What should you be reading to increase your knowledge and wisdom?
No matter where you are on your financial journey you need to know it is possible to turn your financial life around. Making small changes in your life can fatten your savings, help you budget better and achieve greater success financially.
Research shows that 85% of wealthy people read two or more education, career-related, or self-improvement books per month.
Here, we’ve highlighted some of the best books about managing your money and achieving wealth out there, from expert-recommended classics to some of our favourites:
1.Think And Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
One of the most popular books to read when it comes to money. Written in 1937, Think and Grow Rich teaches the thirteen steps to riches. Those thirteen steps, Napoleon claimed, were the secret to building wealth.
This is the end product of two decades of research conducted by Napoleon Hill. His research started when Andrew Carnegie (the steel tycoon who was then the richest man on earth) gave him the assignment of organising a Philosophy of Personal Achievement.
Hill, who was a poor journalist, armed with just an introductory letter from Carnegie, set out to interview over five hundred successful people including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, John D. Rockefeller, George Eastman, William Wrigley Jr. and Charles M. Schwab.
Hill then revealed the priceless wisdom of his research in the form of the thirteen steps to success (in Think and Grow Rich) and the seventeen principles of success (in courses and lectures he conducted). Some of these include developing a definite purpose, building a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA), channelling the power of the sub-conscious mind and dealing with adversity.
Everything he wrote about or talked about is thought provoking. He was wise, humble and funny. His philosophy is universal; he did not mix it with religion. The riches he referred to were more than money, for the Philosophy of Personal Achievement can be applied to anything in life. Hill was well ahead of his time. This book has a chapter dedicated to some of today’s most important issues – Specialized Knowledge, Decision Making, Imagination and Organised Planning (in which he deals with Leadership).
We highly recommend reading this book and would love to hear your thoughts on it.
2.The Science Of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles
The inspiration behind Rhonda Byrne’s bestselling book and movie, The Secret. Wallace Wattles concisely shows how to use the power of thought and willpower on the way to getting rich.
Wattles shows that by focusing only on what your heart desires and believing unconditionally that those things are yours to have, you connect to the Universe which gave you those desires in the first place and intends for you to fulfil them.
His philosophy is at the essence of how we can attain real fulfilment and inner-peace doing what we love. This book will show you exactly how to control your thoughts so you can have the success you were created for.
The text is divided into 17 short, straight-to-the-point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, rather than competition, is the hidden key to wealth attraction.
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3.The One Minute Millionaire, Mark Victor Hansen
A New York Times bestseller, the mastermind behind the 65-million-copy Chicken Soup series, and Robert G. Allen, a pioneer in bestselling wealth-creation books, share their revolutionary approach to building wealth and present a powerful program for self-discovery.
The lessons in The One Minute Millionaire are not just about becoming a millionaire – they are about how to ethically make, keep, and share your wealth. Whether your goal is less than a million dollars or that amount many times over, there’s never been a better time to achieve abundance. In these turbulent times, these lessons will show you how to recover from financial loss and rebound with renewed enthusiasm into financial security and prosperity.
The One Minute Millionaire will show you how to create wealth even when you have nothing to start with, use the power of leverage to build wealth rapidly, overcome fears so that you can take reasonable risks and use “one minute” habits to build wealth over the long term.
4.Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
Kiyosaki shatters the myth that you need to earn a lot of money to get rich in this best-seller. By telling the story of two dads — his own, and the father of his best friend — he explains how to build wealth even with a small salary.
Additionally, Kiyosaki challenges the popular belief that your house is an asset, details the differences between how rich people and average people choose to get paid, and emphasises the critical difference between an asset and a liability.
5.The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
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. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy.
Wealth 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 glamorised 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.
It is well known that people who make consistent progress towards educating themselves live a happier life than those that don’t. So, what are you waiting for?
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