The Millionaire Next Door, a book that dashed our notions about who America’s millionaires really are and how they spend their money, marked its 10th anniversary recently, and nobody noticed. No party. No 10th-anniversary edition. Nothing.

That’s shocking for a runaway book that sold out its first printing in three days, held a spot on The New York Times’ best-seller list for more than three years and is hailed as a staple for any personal finance book collection.

The book by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, subtitled The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, was published Oct. 25, 1996. But the striking and profound findings revealed in that book a decade ago are as true today as they were then — especially when it comes to spending money.

The book showed that millionaires spend their money smarter than other people. They still do.
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