Posted on 03/01/2015 5:14:12 PM PST by Cecily
The author of a blockbuster book series on the habits of millionaires was killed in a car crash Saturday afternoon near his home in Marietta, according to his family and Cobb County police.
Thomas J. Stanley, who was 71, used research to smash the stereotype that being wealthy meant looking wealthy. On the contrary, his works said: Self-made millionaires — the real deal, not the wannabes — are much more likely to be frugal and spurn spending for show.
As for the people showing off the bling? “It’s the neurotic middle-class,” he said in a 1991 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Or the millionaires’ children.
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Best to keep one’s sense of humor when discussing fatal accidents. Been told they can happen to anyone at any time.
My sympathies to the relatives. And a pox on both the houses of that stupid MDX SOB.
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