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> Nobody becomes a billionaire from starting a landscaping service or an auto body shop. few, but actually it's quite reasonable to expect to become a milliona
by maerF0x0 6y ago
> Nobody becomes a billionaire from starting a landscaping service or an auto body shop.
few, but actually it's quite reasonable to expect to become a millionaire as show in [1], given the age of the book I'd extrapolate to multimillionaire
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/998.The_Millionaire_Next_Door https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/998.The_Millionaire_Next...
- brg 6y agoThe statistic that PG didn't write about but seems to pertinent is that the number of millions has increased more than 10 fold from 1980 to 2020. 1992 story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/07/11/number-of-us-millionaires-soars/99185778-fb35-4771-b012-7183b91215c7/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/07/11/n... Recent statistic: 18.6 million families, https://spendmenot.com/blog/what-percentage-of-americans-are-millionaires/ https://spendmenot.com/blog/what-percentage-of-americans-are...