Conversations with Millionaires: What Millionaires Do to Get Rich, That You Never Learned About in School! (Paperback)

~ Mike Litman (Author), (Author), Robert Allen (Foreword) "Over the last 38 years, spanning almost four decades, this individual has influenced people that have trained a whole class of personal development students..." (more)
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"A proven, practical book that will accelerate you towards financial independence. Read it, follow it and watch your life change!" -- Brian Tracy - Author The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

"If you want to make millions, read this book." -- Robert Allen - NY Times Bestselling Author Creating Wealth

Conversations with Millionaires is one of the top 3 books I would recommend to anyone to change your life. -- Philippe Matthews, President, Empowermag.com

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Discover the amazing secrets of nine successful self-made millionaires that can get you all the success and happiness you could ever want. Plus, these secrets can help you eliminate years of struggle and wasted effort and make you an absolute fortune...Just like they already have for thousands of others! These millionaires include: the co-Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Multiple Streams of Income and Nothing Down, The E-Myth, Guerrilla Marketing, plus Jim McCann (the CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS), Jim Rohn (Tony Robbins' mentor), and even the king of Chocolate Chip Cookies, Wally Famous Amos! Discover secrets like: The two best ways to triple your income and double your time off, simple success secrets that launched a billion dollar empire, and how to set up a business so it gives you freedom to live your dreams.

From Mark Victor Hanson and Jack Canfield to Robert Allen and Michael Gerber, Conversations with Millionaires can help you get more of what you want in life because you'll be learning the same methods, techniques, and secrets that have already been time-tested and proven to work in the real world. Conversations with Millionaires is exactly that. A book jam-packed with the actual fast-paced interviews between real-world entrepreneur Mike Litman (Host of The Mike Litman Radio Show) and each of these self-made millionaires. Mike's world-reknowned style of getting each millionaire to cut-to-the-chase and reveal exactly how they do what they do makes this book a 'behind the scenes' look at how these millionaires became so rich and successful

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Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: Conversations with Millionaires LLC (October 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931866007
• ISBN-13: 978-1931866002
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (133 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #343,576 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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130 of 134 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm going to be objective, June 30, 2002

By	Adam Mikiewicz - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bottom line, this book is worth the asking price. Many people search for specific methodologies for attaining millionaire status. The truth is, it's very difficult to reproduce the *specific* actions that other millionaires used to achieve their wealth. Instead, you need to master the thought processes that motivated the initiation of those lucrative actions of millionaires so that you can come up with your own creative sources of wealth.

I would be willing (and did) to purchase this book solely for the Jim Rohn interview. Jim teaches you in this book that success is something that you attract by the person that you become...that if you work hard on your job, you'll make a living. But if you work hard on yourself, you'll make a fortune. Jim's teachings are excellent because he focuses on how you can progress from where you are right now...by taking small steps that consist of small disciplines. "Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons." His message is that you don't need a revolution or do anything spectacularly dramatic for your self-esteem to start going off the scale...just make a commitment to any easy discipline..then another one and another one until you become unrecognizable as the mediocre person you may have been up until now. Just start with some little something to prove to yourself that you're going to develop a whole list of disciplines.

Jim talks about reasons. If you have enough reasons, you can do anything. If you have enough reasons, you'll read all the books that you need to read. You'll get up however early you need to get up. Sometimes we find it a little hard to get out of bed. We want to linger. Part of that is not just being tired, or weary, or a little bit poor nutrition, some of it is just lack of the drive in terms of having a long enough list of reasons to do it.

Jim was Tony Robbins' mentor. Tony adopted many of Jim's teachings. And, as you can see, they worked very well at catapulting Tony to centimillionaire status.

I highly, highly, recommend Jim Rohn's "7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness", and, if you can find it somewhere (...), his audio tape program entitled "The Weekend Seminar". Life changing material!

The Mark Victor Hanson interview is excellent. He talks about visualization and goal setting.

The Wally "Famous" Amos interview is fair.

The Jack Canfield interview is a fantastic one on self-esteem. His analogy of self-esteem being like poker chips, where when you have a lot of chips (=high self-esteem) you tend to take more risks, is an analogy that I have adopted and use to this day. The advice that he details that he received from Tony Robbins about masterminding is precious and is a testament to the power of influence.

The Robert Allen interview is fair with just a few excellent points sprinkled in: 1) the power of mentors (how he could have gone to a university for 50 years and never learned what his mentor taught him about real estate in 6 months); 2) the power of a mastermind group 3) Recommendation of the book "Influence" by Robert Cialdini (which I believe is a must have in anyone's library...truly a profound book!). Otherwise, Allen's interview is recycled info from his Multiple Streams of Income book in addition to pitches for his mailing list and site.

Sharon Lechter interview is fair: recycled "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" (which, save for a couple of truths about how people behave, is the king of all pitch books...the book is skewed at brainwashing the reader that learning accounting and buying the $150 boardgame, CASHFLOW, is the key to amassing great wealth) material in addition to a plethora of pitches for RichDad.com and Cashflow Quadrant.

Michael Gerber interview is fair: recycled material from "E-Myth" (which is a great book) + pitches for his other books.

The Jim McCann interview is outstanding and inspirational. Here's a man that started out as a social worker in a group home and later became the top "dot-com" company with 1-800-FLOWERS.com and hob knobbing with Donald Trump. He offers some sage advice with respect to business success. He states that the real business opportunities are done in areas that aren't particularly "sexy", innovative, or high-tech. The opportunities are in the areas that someone had a passion for them. The key or the secret: find something that you are interested in and gets your juices flowing...that you feel passionate about. He talks about how everything that you do impacts people's perception of you, which is your brand.

The Jay Conrad Levinson interview is fair: recycled material from his "Guerrilla Marketing" book (which is a good book, also). ....

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, October 28, 2005

By	Sunny Reader - See all my reviews

A more appropriate title for this book is "Interviews with folks who are selling their own get rich or personal books, who happen to be millionaires through the product they are peddling -- Robert Allen style". This includes Mr. Amos and the 1-800-flowers guy, they are selling their own books. Besides all of the rhetoric hype, there is no valuable insight to wealth building. No meat. Each person simply explains the philosophy of their product/book and Litman announces how to goto their website plus their 800 number. There are some tidbits but they accumulate to less than 10% of this thin book. The first four interviews, nearly half of the book, contain zero value. They appear to be added as filler.

That said, two of the books featured "The Emyth" and "Rich Dad Poor Dad", are excellent books. I recommend buying these books directly instead of pecking for crumbs from this book.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Repeat Information, June 30, 2004

By	J. Eller (Johnson City, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Not much effort in writing this book! The writer, Mike Littman, simply transcribed conversations he has had with other self-help millionaires on his radio shows. Nine millionaires are interviewed: Jim Rohn, Mark Victor Hanson, Wally Amos, Jack Canfield, Robert Allen, Sharon Lechter, Michael Gerber, Jim McCann, and Jay Conrad Levinson. Most are promoting their own self-help books and products. For example:

Page 208 (Jay Conrad Levinson)
"I did a course called, Guerrilla Marketing for the New Millennium and its available from the same place you talked about before, Aesop.com. Thats the first placed I'd go. I say that because I wrote it for people who don't know anything about marketing but want to use marketing to grow a business. Or, they have a business and they want to make it bigger and cut down the amount of money that they are investing in marketing. All of the things that I'm saying, naturally, are in my books Guerilla Marketing.
The course that I gave called, Guerilla Marketing for the New Millennium, is up to the state of the moment. It's up to state of what marketing is doing right now."

In my opinion, the book was written with the sole purpose of making money both for the author and for the interviewees. Don't buy it! The same information can be found in greater detail in other books.