[searstower]

Precious...

J1234 is right, the 'rich people' you described are more likely thousand-aires who want to look like millionaires. I've met a lot of multimillionaires in person over the last year (at least 10-15 of them) including a cousin of mine. It's often hard to tell the real millionaires out of the crowd. They are not usually the big party people, but they do seem to know how to control a crowd very well.

When you talk with real, self made millionaires, you'll notice that they think about certain things differently than the average population. For instance, if you tell a self-made millionaire that time is money, he'll laugh in your face. The only people who think time is money are the ones that trade an hour of their time for a set amount of money.

Self-made millionaires realize that an hour of their time can be worth $5,000 dollars, or it can be worth zippo depending on how they spend their time.

So if you want to act like a millionaire so that you can become one, first figure out how real millionaires act. Here are a few other lessons I've picked up (much thanks to my street-smart millionaire cousin).

-Rich people are bigger than their problems. You will never hear a real self-made millionaire complaining.
-Rich people don't play the blame game. When something goes wrong, they don't spend valuable time arguing about who screwed up, first they fix the problem.
-Rich people prefer to be paid based on their results, rather than on the time they spend on a project.
-Rich people focus on their net income, not on their earned income. In middle class america, the most common question to ask a new acquantance is "What do you do" (which gives the asker an idea how much they earn). In upper class circles, no one cares what you do. Instead they ask "What are you invested in?"
-Rich people see other very rich people and they admire them and want to learn from them (whereas poor people often dislike rich people because the rich have something that they want)

A great book in my opinion is Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, by T. Harv Eker. 2/3s of the book is full of the differences between rich people's thought patterns and poor people's.

I'd highly recommend any of his courses as well, since that is where I've met most of the millionaires I currently know. (If it's good enough for millionaires to attend, it should be good enough for us, right?)

Rebecca