The Instant Millionaire: A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth

by Mark Fisher

Book Overview

Do those who succeed work harder than those who only dream about success? Are they smarter, luckier, more ruthless? And does financial success bring happiness? These perennial questions are perhaps more timely than ever. The Instant Millionaire answers them in the unforgettable voice of a very wise and wealthy old man. Known as the "Instant Millionaire" because he grasped the true secret of making a fortune overnight, this sage mentors a young...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577319346
• ISBN13: 9781577319344
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

It was a fantastic book.! Well recommended

I even read this book with my 7-8 year old and they liked it! Love the concept!

The Best Book You'll Ever Read

I've read several self help books. Infact, I've read well over 100 self help books and I'm not that old. ;-) I have to say that The Instant Millionaire is by far the best book that I've ever read. I'm actually carrying it around with me just as I do my Bible; which I hold to be most sacred. This book will answer your questions with practical answers on how to be a successful, happy, and peaceful person. If you only buy one more book your entire life, I recommend that it's The Instant Millionaire. My life has been both blessed and changed by it.

A fable that will double your income

This book is outstanding. If you're looking for "the secrets of wealth", you'll find this book to be exactly what you're looking for. I think it's obvious that these secrets exist: if all the money in the U.S. were evenly distributed to every person, you would find that, in six months, we'd again have an upper, middle and lower-class....and they'd probably be the same people that occupy those "classes" now. Why? Quite simply because wealthy people know something that the average person doesn't know. They know the secrets of wealth. And that's what you'll find in this book. Some of my fellow reviewers said this book was "too simple" or lacked "strategies". On the contrary, this book, unlike so many others of the same vein, actually gives practical steps on how to achieve the income of your desires. Naturally, you will need to fill in the own details about the business that you find yourself working in; but the principles are the same and they are laid out here very clearly. Too simple? I don't think so. The principles of success are actually quite simple. If there is a difficult part, it's changing your life-long habits of scarcity into new habits of wealth consciousness. Also, it should be noted that the book is in a fable format which is much more readable than the text of some of the older, more "classic" texts, such as "Think and Grow Rich". I'm not saying anything against the classic books, only that this modern interpretation gives much of the same information. I would recommend anyone who loves "The Instant Millionaire" to immediately get a copy of Think and Grow Rich if they haven't read it. Incidentally, I credit this book with my success as an entrepreneur. The use of the ideas in this book allowed me to start from scratch in one business and create an annualized six-figure income in less than 6 months. It works.

It's eerie how well this works

I first read this book five years ago. I was so impressed and excited by the book's principles that I urged several like-minded friends to buy the book, and I sat down and listed my goals and my plan to become a millionaire, more as a fun, silly exercise than anything else. (For fun, I bought myself and a good friend those fake but nice-looking million dollar bills, and we wrote ourselves checks for twenty-five million dollars!)Five years later, it is positively CREEPY how those original goals are mysteriously coming true. I'm exactly where I'd told myself I would be -- I have a net worth of just over a quarter of a million dollars, and I'm on track to become a millionaire by age 30 -- which is just mind-blowing to me! I recommend that you buy this book for the underlying principles, but also buy Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad series. The Rich Dad books take the principles in the Instant Millionaire a step further and bridge the gap between what I call "the principles," which can seem kind of hocus-pocus if you don't understand why they work, and putting them into action. A footnote...I had lost touch for a few years with one of the friends I'd urged to read this book (the one I gave the million-dollar bill to). We caught up with each other a few months ago (and have become close friends again), but I found out that she had never implemented the suggestions in the Instant Millionaire (I suppose they seemed too simplistic and too good to be true).Sadly, she is still renting, still living paycheck-to-paycheck, and still in ever-mounting debt. She seemed impressed with my success (which I'm careful not to flaunt!) but seems to think it was all good luck, or specific career skills, or something. I hope I can convince her this time that she needs to READ AND APPLY THIS BOOK and she can experience the same mind-blowing success!!!

Amazingly simple and readable

I picked up this book and read it all the way through in about 2 hours. I usually stop and think while I read, so it took me longer to read this than normal.This is a very short and simple book. It's written in very easy to understand language. It's basically a story about a young man who meets a millionaire and learns the "secret" to being a millionaire. I hate to give away the punchline, but the title of the book "Instant Millionaire" simply means that when you decide to become a millionaire and write that down as a goal with a deadline, that act in and of itself will make you an instant millionaire because before you can achieve it, you must first believe that it is possible and then set that as a goal. Of course you have to take all that on faith.In terms of self-help books, there's not a whole lot of new information in here. If you've read "Think and Grow Rich" and "The Richest Man in Babylon" you kind of get the same information. I do recommend this book because it's nice and short and easy to read. It made me think long and hard, and part way through my first reading, I found myself stopping and writing down some goals. Unfortunately, with many self-help books, we tend to just read them and do nothing after that. If you like this sort of book, I also recommend "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles.I'm giving this book 5 stars simply because I really liked it. There's nothing really new under the sun, but I like when somebody comes along and says it differently. It's easy to read and reread. The style of the book being that of a story made it that much more interesting. After reading it through, I find myself wanting to read it again. I did pick up a couple of good pieces of information from this book as well, so it's not completely a rehash of other stuff.

If you only ever read one self-help book make it this one

The best book by far I have read on self development, and I have trawled through a fair few in my time. The format of a tale or fable works very well and happily avoids the pitfalls of pretentiousness and self indulgence that other books of this nature are prone. The answers and principles contained within are not new of course but the way in which these are presented have an impact like no other book. For anyone interested in improving themselves, financially or otherwise, this book really is a must read.