The Eventual Millionaire: How Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur and Successfully Grow Their Startup

Chapter 1

Are You an Eventual Millionaire?

After you become a millionaire, you can give all of your money away because what’s important is not the million dollars; what’s important is the person you have become in the process of becoming a millionaire.

—Jim Rohn

After interviewing more than 100 millionaires, I can easily say that there are patterns to success. So many similar stories and struggles have come up in the course of years of studying them. I can also easily say that calling them millionaires almost seems trite, because they are utterly amazing people, and their net worth does not define them. I’m lucky to call many of them my true friends.

At the beginning of this study, I thought like most people think, that millionaires were somehow different, that they had something that “normal” people didn’t have. I asked questions like, “Did you always know you would be a millionaire?” because I was trying to figure out if they were born with something most people don’t have.

Are You an Eventual Millionaire?

An Eventual Millionaire is someone with a goal to become a millionaire, eventually. But Eventual Millionaires want to do it on their own terms, with an enjoyable life and an enjoyable business.

Eventual Millionaires put the process of making money into perspective. Usually overachievers, they are willing to work hard. But they don’t want to sacrifice their daily lives for their goals. Eventual Millionaires are smart. They want to enjoy the process of making money, not just ...