What Secret Millionaires Don't Tell You - Dave Ramsey Rant

You know, this money thing is very interesting, guys, it's very interesting because very few things are

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they seem as you get older and uglier like me and my ears continue to grow as do other parts of my body that They continue to grow, says my wife. my belly continues to grow and she is right that she is more and more surprising to me how stupid I was and how she didn't really understand that very few people who seem to have money actually make the huge car expensive. the car, the very expensive bag, the very expensive vacation on Instagram, the very expensive blank spaces, are very rarely real indicators of wealth, particularly the first level of wealth, and I would call the first level of wealth your first, your first 10. million dollars if you have a net worth of 1 to 10 million dollars, the average person in that category is not average to begin with, they are well above average, but the typical person, I guess, I should say typical family, which is from one to ten million. net worth in dollars is highly underestimated, they buy their clothes from unimpressive places and it's not impressive at all.

They enjoy a good vacation, but they rarely post it for you to see on Instagram because no, they didn't take you on vacation, they wanted to. to go on vacation the Christmas presents around the tree are very reasonable the car they drive is discreet and the valet is rarely impressed until he gets the tip it's usually a used Camry or a nice used Honda truck of some kind because people who They achieve that first layer of wealth from one to ten million dollars the way they did it is they didn't do it for you they aren't mad at you but they don't care

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you think they weren't living their life to impress others they loved their life, not yours, they weren't trying to emulate or be the Joneses they just didn't care what you thought, there's something real saying when you stop caring about what people think and are actually living life for yourself. and your family and that causes you to make completely different purchases and live a completely different lifestyle.

One of the biggest compliments I had was that I had a very important gentleman who was a high level corporate executive at one of the largest companies in our area. to visit us one night at our house and he said he was interested in meeting you, he said: I've been watching you. I've been asking around the city of Nashville about Dave Ramsey and he said, "You know what I always hear." I'm interested to hear that. It will be interesting to know what you don't assume. Hmm, that's a nice compliment. It's another way of saying. I don't really do things for what you think.

I can do a lot of nice things, but I'm not really doing any of that for you. I don't mean that in a bad way, just know that I didn't buy the house I live in for you, I bought it for myself and I don't care what. You think about it one way or another, same with my boat or my car or my vacation or whatever and my net worth these days is well over the $10 million level so I'm starting to enjoy some things at a different level and the people I know who are in the hundreds of dollars $200,000,000 now have some things that are striking and are not simple because they can afford it, it is a very small percentage of their world.

I have a friend who is worth about two hundred million dollars. He bought his wife a five thousand dollar purse. My brain in any Tennessee couldn't even fathom the idea of ​​doing that until I made it for my wife later, but but. I was surprised that someone would pay that much for a bag. I still don't get it, but it's just the way Sharon wants it, but you know, I realized it's an uber, who should spend that on our purse? Well, no one should. probably, but the truth is that it's such a small percentage of the world that guy who has one hundred million two hundred million dollars five thousand dollars he didn't spit you don't even know it, you know it, it's not like you, it's like you bought a cookie, right?

They don't even come up and then it's the proportions at that point, but what I mean is that the first level of wealth is not the guy with a hundred million or two hundred million from the girl who is a billionaire or something, that's a different world and you I know that's a different kind of expense and a different kind of lifestyle because when they buy a plane it's a smaller percentage of their world than when you know most people buy a car right so it's a world really different. period, but the one to ten million of that first layer of wealth are typically people that if you walked past them at Walmart you would have no idea that we were leaving a church that I was speaking at in Orlando, Florida the other day and I walked Past this guy, tall and skinny with gray hair, I'm guessing some 65-year-old blue jeans that are pressed with a crease in the middle, really nice cowboy boots and a big Texas belt and an ironed shirt.

I mean, it looked like a million dollars. blue jeans and cowboy boots, but I walked past him, I told one of my guys, I told him he's an everyday millionaire. Now I can see it because he looks like just a guy in jeans and boots, but they were very nice and he was clean and pressed and you know he took care of himself, obviously, he had cut his hair, you know, the razor had touched his face, you know. all that kind of stuff and that kind of thing is just, you know, but it was noticeable even though there was It wasn't anything flashy, it was just still put together, you could feel it.

I can feel it. I can feel the everyday

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now, not all of them, but I just met a lot of them over decades of doing this and working with you, so my point. It's my friend Tom Stanley who wrote the book Million or next he wrote another book called Later Stop Acting Rich That's a Great Thing You Can Do Act With Your Damn Salary Act With Your Salary Stop Buying Things You Can't Afford with money you don't have impressing people you don't even like is a sign that you're stupid it's not a sign that you're rich the sign that you're starting to get rich is that you didn't do any of that that's my point this It's chef

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