{"id":222,"date":"2006-08-09T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=222"},"modified":"2006-08-09T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T17:03:38","slug":"5-habits-of-millionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/5-habits-of-millionaires\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Habits of Millionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who wouldn&#8217;t read this monster.com article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/featuredreports.monster.com\/life-change-wf\/habits\/?WT.mc_n=rss2005_DMM\" target=\"_blank\">5 Habits of Millionaires<\/a>? I suppose millionaires. Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=219\" target=\"_blank\">I posted on the cars CEOs drive<\/a>. I suspected that they drive &#8220;common&#8221; cars but may live in nicer homes.<\/p>\n<p>From today&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many wealthy people live quite simply, he points out, choosing less pretentious homes than they could theoretically afford and opting for financial independence over material showmanship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you go &#8211; their Utilitarianism is stronger than even I expected.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to see that I shared this aspect with millionaires:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One interesting study found a majority of male millionaire entrepreneurs had been in trouble with school authorities or the police during their adolescence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wouldn&#8217;t read this monster.com article &#8211; 5 Habits of Millionaires? I suppose millionaires. Yesterday, I posted on the cars CEOs drive. I suspected that they drive &#8220;common&#8221; cars but may live in nicer homes. From today&#8217;s article: Many wealthy people live quite simply, he points out, choosing less pretentious homes than they could theoretically afford and opting for financial independence over material showmanship. There you go &#8211; their Utilitarianism is stronger than even I expected. I was pleased to see that I shared this aspect with millionaires: One interesting study found a majority of male millionaire entrepreneurs had been in trouble with school authorities or the police during their&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/5-habits-of-millionaires\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-3A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1456,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/teenage-millionaires\/","url_meta":{"origin":222,"position":0},"title":"Teenage Millionaires","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are truly looking for frustration inspiration today, check out this article from Forbes.com - How To Make A Million Before You Turn 20.\u00a0 Yup, the article profiles of 5 different teenage millionaires. 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