Saturday, March 1, 2008

6 traits to get rich

Russ Alan Prince, author of The Middle-Class Millionaire, has been trying to understand the “working rich”. Prince defines them as those with net worths between $1 million and $10 million, but who still work for a living. After talking to 586 such families, he thinks 9 most important factors are:

  1. Rich people work longer. Rich people work an average of 70 hours a week and they are "always" available via email or phone
  2. Rich people network more. They tend to know 60% more people then average.
  3. Rich people take significantly more risks. Almost 90% admitted of making a big business or career decision with bad outcome. On average they made 3 such mistakes.
  4. Rich people dont work for salary. Over 80% own a good percentage of the businesses they work for.
  5. Rich people follow the money. 74% think that following money is more important for the career. 
  6. Rich people can be ruthless. More than half say taking advantage of others' weakness is an important ingredient for success.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Seems either you mistakenly missd three traits or mentioned it as "he thinks 9 most important factors are:" by mistake...

Whatever it might be...the mentioned ones seems relevant though..