Conversations with Millionaires: What Millionaires Do to Get Rich, That You Never Learned about in School!

by Mike Litman

Book Overview

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 to eliminate years of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931866007
• ISBN13: 9781931866002
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Conversations with Millionaires LLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Entrepreneur as Pilgrim

What we have here are (presumably edited) transcripts of conversations conducted by Litman during broadcasts on a small radio station on Long Island. Even on the printed page, they are lively because of Litman's exuberance and his guests' authentic enthusiasm about what they discuss. Although the guests share much in common (e.g. passion about what they do, a high energy level, an eagerness to take on new business challenges, and a delight in principled competition), each has a quite distinct personality and remarkably diverse views on what are generally referred to as "the secrets of success." I disagree with those reviewers who dismiss the interviews as an extended infomercial. True, Litman celebrates his guests' success and urges listeners to purchase the materials they have created. He thinks highly of the various books, tapes, etc. to which he refers. I have no problem with that. As I read each of the interviews, I felt as though I were listening to the conversation as broadcast on the radio. Repetitions, jumbled syntax, digressions, and emotional reactions all give the interactions with Litman an immediacy and an authenticity which few (if any) anthologies of brightly polished essays possess.Here are three brief excerpts which will, I hope, give those who read this review a sufficient indication of what this volume offers to them:Advice from a mentor, Earl Shoaf: "`Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become. Do it for what you'll end up knowing about the marketplace, what you'll learn about the management of time and working with people. Do it for the ability of discovering how to keep your ego in check. For what you have to learn about being benevolent. Being kind as well as being strong. What you have to learn about society and business and government and taxes and becoming an accomplished person to reach the status of millionaire is what's valuable. Not the million dollars.' That was one of the best pieces of philosophy I have ever heard in my life." Jim Rohm, author of dozens of books, cassettes, and courses on success, on living a full life, on fulfilling potential.On his success plan: "First of all, you've got to figure out what you really want. In my case and in [co-author Jack Canfield's] case, we didn't want a best-selling book. We wanted a mega best-selling book, Chicken Soup for the Soul. The clearer you are, the easier it is to execute. Number two, you put it in writing and where I differ from all my peers is, I say you must have too many goals. I've got over 6,000 in writing. Three, visualize it. What you see with your inner eye....[Jack and I] cut out the New York Times Bestseller list. Then we put our names at the top before we ever got to the top in real life. Then we put it on my mirror and we put one up at Jack's office, on his mirror. So in our mind's eye, when we were shaving or the ladies were doing cosmetics, we

the secrets aren't so secret

This book shows me that there are two things common to very successful people--no matter what field: first, they all give, as in tithing, even before they had the money to do so easily ; and second, they work to improve themselves, to grow and change for the better. People who work harder on themselves than they do on their jobs seem to enjoy great success. So when people tell me I am weird becasue I study new ways to think and act, ways to understand where I am stuck and how to move ahead--I know they reflect their own being stuck and I choose to leave their paradigms. This book makes perfect readiing just before falling off to sleep as it shifts my thinking and energy to new heights and allows my mind to work at a new level while I sleep.

I'm going to be objective

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) Recommendat

This book touched my heart and expanded my vision

I recently purchased Conversations with Millionaires, after receiving an email from Joe Vitale, author of Spiritual Marketing. At the time, I had no idea who Mike Litman was or what was the concept of the book, but the title was catching to me and I thought,"What the heck". The book arrived and sat in my "To read pile" for a few weeks. On a recent business trip I decided to bring it with me. Well, from the moment I started reading I didn't want to put it down! I decided it was in my best interest to read one interview at a time so I could actually take in the information being delivered to my heart.I encourage you to purchase and read this book...be prepared to take notes and have your highlighter ready. I have read a zillion books by the great business authors including Hill, Carnegie, Blanchard, Robbins, etc...this book takes knowledge from great people and shares with the world tools that REALLY can work for everyone and they are in one place. Read it, try on and practice the tools that these great people are willing to share. This book is an inspiration for those who have a vision and dreams.

Conversations with Millionaires

I listen to Mike Litman's Radio Show while he interviewed thesesuccessful people. My pencil was busy taking notes and I keptwishing he would make the transcripts available.Mike heard my wish and put those interviews in this book. I didn'thesitate one moment purchasing Conversations with Millionaires.I was amazed at what I had missed or forgotten when I started reading these interview. It is a process and a journey to the road to success. This bookis the guide and map you need to help you make it. It is theactual interviews Mike had with Robert Allen, Michael Gerber,Sharon Lechter, Mark Victor Hansen, just to name a few.Mike's down to earth interviewing approach enabled these people toopen up and share their thought process, mind set, success and failures. Never trust someone who claims to be successful who didn't have failures.Failure is where you really learn. If you can learn from someone's failures and mistakes, your journey down the road to success will be shorter.I've been able to apply many of the principles and advice from thisbook in both my life and business. Positive changes have already been happening. What a difference.Conversations with Millionaires is not a get rich quick schemebook. It is a life guide. So if your life isn't where you wantit or you just want to enrich it further...I highly recommendthis book. (...)