Millionaires

Meet the Rags to Riches Millionaires

Rags to riches stories are my favorite.  There is so much to be learned from people who were at the bottom and were able to lift themselves and become successful.  There is so much hope in these success stories for every person out there.  If only our young people were more focused on learning everything [...]

US States with Highest Percentage of Millionaire Households

About five percent of US households are millionaires.  Millionaire for the purposes of this article is defined as those with $1 million or more in liquid assets (which excludes retirement accounts and real estate).  If you are curious to know where these millionaires choose to live, Phoenix Marketing International analyzes national data to find which [...]

Searching for the One Percenters

So much has been said about the one percenters, those people that make up the wealthiest one percent of Americans, that you have to wonder who they really are.  The search for the one percenters has really intensified since the beginning of the  Occupy Wall Street movement which claims to represent the 99 percent of [...]

What Countries Have the Most Millionaires?

According to a recent report by the Boston Consulting Group, the United States continues to be the country with the highest absolute number of millionaires in the world, with an estimated 5,220,000 millionaires.  The millionaires in the US hold about 56% of the total wealth in the country, but these individuals represent only 4.5% of [...]

Can You Get Rich Going to Class?

It is well accepted that education is one of the most important factors that influences financial success.  Study after study has shown that those with a college education have a much better chance of reaching financial success than those that don’t.  But does that mean that you can get rich by going to the class? [...]

On Becoming a Millionaire

We have written extensively about millionaires.  Not only did we talk about the people who have achieved this distinctive status, we have also described in detail how you too can become one.   As discussed before, despite of the fact that one million dollars is no longer an amount that will necessarily set you for life, [...]

How to Be a Millionaire

Being a millionaire is the life dream of many people.  Considering that in 2008 there were 10.1 million millionaires in the world and the global population is in the neighborhood of 7 billion people you may conclude that the odds of being part of the top 0.14% of the world’s wealthy is almost an impossible [...]

The US States with the Most Millionaires

In an article by MainStreet it was reported that the number of millionaires in the US has declined in 2009 by almost 1 million since the beginning of the recession in 2007.  The data is based on a report from Phoenix Marketing International, which defines a millionaire as a household that has at least $1 [...]

Rags to Riches Bloggonaire

We recently wrote the article Rags to Riches Reallionaire where we presented to you the success story of Farrah Gray, a self proclaimed “reallionaire”, whose book title is Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out .  What is a reallionaire, you ask?  According to Farrah, a rellionaire is someone that is rich [...]