The Millionaire Fastlane (52 page)
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Authors: M.J. DeMarco
Tags: #Business & Economics, #Entrepreneurship, #Motivational, #New Business Enterprises, #Personal Finance, #General
CHAPTER 6: HAS YOUR WEALTH BEEN TOXIFIED?
Society's Toxification of Wealth
The Wealth Trinity: What Is Wealth?
Wealth Can't Be Bought for 60 Easy Payments
The Illusion of Wealth: Looking Rich
Faux Wealth Destroys Real Wealth
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 7: MISUSE MONEY AND MONEY WILL MISUSE YOU
IF Money Doesn't Buy Happiness … Does Poverty?
Normalcy Is the Rat Race, a Modern-Day Slavery
The Proper Use of Money
Lifestyle Servitude: The Trap of the Sidewalk
If You Think You Can Afford It -You Can't
The Bait of Lifestyle Servitude
Look for the Hook!
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 8: LUCKY BASTARDS PLAY THE GAME
Psst … Wanna Get Lucky?
Self-Made Millions Arise from Self-Made Luck
Renounce the “Big Hit” as Your Financial Plan
Getting Swindled: A Sidewalker's Temptation
Disembarking the Sidewalk: The Three Anchors
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 9: WEALTH DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY
Hitchhikers Don't Drive!
The Law of Victims
The Politics of Hitchhiking
Wealth Demands Responsibility, Followed by Accountability
Immunize Yourself from Victimization
You Deserve! You Deserve! You Deserve!
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
PART 4: Mediocrity–The Slowlane Roadmap
CHAPTER 10: THE LIE YOU'VE BEEN SOLD: THE SLOWLANE
Next Exit: “Slowlane” Mediocrity Ahead
The Promise of Wealth … The Price? Your Life
Slowlane Mindposts and Missives
The Slowlane Roadmap: A Mathematical Introduction
Have You Sold Your Soul for a Weekend?
“Thank God It 's Friday”: Born and Bred in the Slowlane
Negative 60% The Dismal Return of the Slowlane
Normal Is Condemnation to Mediocrity
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 11: THE CRIMINAL TRADE: YOUR JOB
I Spent Five Years in College … for a Phonebook?
Jobs: Domestication into Normalcy
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 12: THE SLOWLANE-- WHY YOU AREN'T RICH
Exposing Slowlane Ineptitude
Uncontrollable Limited Leverage (ULL) – Part 1
The Warden of Wealth: Intrinsic Value
Compound Interest: What “They” Don't Tell You
Uncontrollable Limited Leverage (ULL) - Part 2
Why Mutual Funds and 401(k)s Won't Make You Rich
Buy-and-Hold Is Dead
The Slowlane's Traitorous Relationship with Time
The Slowlane Is a Plan of Hope
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 13: THE FUTILE FIGHT: EDUCATION
The Fight Against Uncontrollable Limited Leverage: Education
Not All Education Is Created Equal
Slowlane Entrapment
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 14: THE HYPOCRISY OF THE GURUS
You've Been Duped
The Paradox of Practice
Do as I Say, Not as I Do
Is a Paradox of Practice in Play?
Slowlane Gurus Admit Failure
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 15: SLOWLANE VICTORY… A GAMBLE OF HOPE
Exodus: Life in the Slowlane
Seven Slowlane Dangers
Resistance Is Futile
Wealth Fail: Wrong Equation. Wrong Variable
Slowlane Victory: Fame or a Geriatric Ward
How to Win the Slowlane: The “Secret Exit”
Overworked into Corporate Management
Successful Slowlaners Get Stuck in the “Middle”
Millionaires Are Rich … or Are They?
12 Distinctions Between Slowlane and Fastlane Millionaires
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
PART 5: Wealth–The Fastlane Roadmap
CHAPTER 16: WEALTH'S SHORTCUT: THE FASTLANE
What About Door #3?
What Is the Fastlane?
The Fastlane Mindposts
The Fastlane Roadmap: Predisposed to Wealth
The Shadow Behind “Get Rich Quick”
Tales from the Fastlane
The Fastlane: Wealth's Industrial Revolution
The Parable of Fastlane Wealth
The Fastlane Is a Business System: The Slowlane Is a Job
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 17: SWITCH TEAMS AND PLAYBOOKS
The Fastlane Roadmap: The Playbook for Wealth
Switching Teams and the Playbook
Cracking the Code
Producer Reorientation
To Consume Richly, Produce Effectively
Be a Producer: Leverage the Business of a System
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 18: HOW THE RICH REALLY GET RICH
The Burning Question: “How Did You Get Rich?”
The Fastlane Wealth Equation
Millionaires Create and Manipulate Assets (Asset Value)
Wealth Acceleration by Asset Value
The Wealth Acceleration Factor (WAF)
Wealth's Dual-Flanked Attack
Super-Fast Wealth Acceleration: Liquidation Events
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 19: DIVORCE WEALTH FROM TIME
Industrializing Wealth: Divorce from Time
Passive Income: The Holy Grail to Retirement
To Break Time Is to Grow a Money Tree
Money Tree Seedlings: A Fastlane Business
The Five Fastlane Business Seedlings
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 20: RECRUIT YOUR ARMY OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS
How the Rich Explode Wealth
The Best Passive Income Venue in Existence
Savers Become Lenders, Owners, and Producers
Amass Your Army of Freedom Fighters
How Fastlaners (the Rich) Use Compound Interest
How to Really Use Compound Interest
The Tidal Wave of Compound Interest
Chapter Summary: Fastlane Distinctions
CHAPTER 21: THE REAL LAW OF WEALTH
Effection, Not Attraction
Bake a Cake Without Sugar?
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