Book excerpt: Discover how the wealthy think about, earn, spend, and invest money In Eavesdropping on Millionaires: Investment Strategies and Advice on How to Build and Maintain Wealth, John and Tiffani Mauldin of Mauldin Economics, follow millionaires over 12 years to deliver a one-of-a-kind money management guide based on the investment habits, lessons, and techniques used by a cross-section of affluent people. The book provides revelatory insights to those aspiring to new financial heights, investment managers who want to know more about their clients, and for those firmly on the path of financial freedom – a rare window into the lives of your peers. The authors show you how to achieve significant wealth by demonstrating how real people have already traveled that road. You’ll find: Discussions of how the subjects of the book made their money, how they invested, how they spent, and the plans they’ve created for the immediate future. Explorations of how millionaires enjoy life, their outlooks, mistakes, pivotal lessons learned, how they teach their children about money, and their personal spending habits. Examinations of how the affluent make important decisions and deal with adverse market and money events like bear markets, recessions, career changes, and life transitions. An inspiring and eminently practical resource about how people gain, maintain, and grow significant fortunes in the real world, Eavesdropping on Millionaires is a must-read roadmap to wealth for contemporary investors and those serious about financial freedom.