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T. Harv Eker is the Britney Spears of Getting Wealthy Cute little book if you were born yesterday. Heavily hyped this book overpromises and underdelivers. The book is packed with rewordings of the usual suspects - Brian Tracy, Jim Rohn, Robert Kiyosaki, Robert Allen. T. Harv Eker's careful to not mention Kiyosaki too often since he copies a lot of material from him. There are several serious lapses in reasoning like "Everyone should own their own business...." and the chapter doesn't go any further into that. The book goes from serious lapses like that to gross oversimplifications like "it's the seeds and the roots that create those fruits". "It's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground". Duhhh, really? I don't know about you but I learned that in grade school. Throughout the book are "wealth files" and they're like hidden treasure, where they say "Thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, and actions lead to results" or "You can choose to think in ways that will support your happiness and success instead of ways that don't" Gee, fee fye foo fum, me gonna blow me debt down, I gonna but cds and be rich man me too me follow you. This book dumbs down any serious student of financial books. He rips off the usual suspects of Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Kiyosaki, and Robert Allen. He's a huge ripoff of Robert Kiyosaki's books, and you can't separate the two much of the time. This book is very shallow and mind numbing if you've read the others on the "get rich" circuit. Statistics and evidence shows that real millionaires live well below their means, but where does T. Harv Eker mention being frugal? Somehow the "universe" and his "seminars" and being a "wizard" and going to his "intensive seminars" and being trained in the art of "leverage" will "magically" bring the wealth into your bank accounts. This books ideal for seminar junkies, people who take no action, die hard millionaire circuit fans and people who were born yesterday. If you procastinate, are negative or are indecisive this book will probably seem like a "brilliant classic" to you too. It's hard to believe a book that contains a lot of common sense can be sold off as "secret" and "brilliant" with sentences like "the secret to success is not to try to avoid....problems....the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problems". Almost every page he pitches his "seminars" and "workshops" and "camps" and "intensives" that after you've read the book you feel as if you haven't attended the seminar, you're being left out and the book was a waste of money (which it is). If you insist on reading this trash, loiter where it's at and buy a coffee and sit it out. I've met T. Harv Eker personally. I attended his Toronto seminar. If he plans his portfolio as poorly as his seminars I woulden't trust his advice or his $1200 cd courses. He brought a small easel which most people coulden't see. Ever heard of an LCD projector and a laptop? Millionaires use those too. In the 45 minutes he said nothing new or interesting if you've read "The MIllionaire Next Door" and "Think and Grow Rich" - 2 books I recommend, and if you read the first 60 pages of this book, it's identical word for word to his free seminar. He really annoyed me by asking me - forcing 1200 people - to stand, sit, stand, sit, like we were school children, and repeat dumb platitudes he said. He started the night off by saying, "Don't believe a word I say". People spend half the night wrestling with this statement. The important insights and quotes in the book - Buckminster Fuller, W.H. Murray, etc. are almost completely overshadowed by ripoffs and rewordings of real mentors, whom he copied, lame duck stories, platitudes, weak pitches for his seminars and "courses" and "wizard training". The books stories usually go the course of "I was paycheck to paycheck for 40 years, I have the book knowledge of 10 men, I have an MBA, I've been to every seminar known to mankind, but after meeting you and spending 3 days in your seminar, I made more in 18 months then in the past 18 years." Names? Dates? Copies of financial statements? Specific methods, strategies, leverage techniques? Markets, sectors, his master mind group? Nothing. We're supposed to accept spood fed stories from the latest guru from the Gods on getting rich. The caveat here is these people get rich off you and me. They depend on our thoughtless "consume, consume, consume" consumer culture mindset without any critical appraisel of the content. The important insights that are in the book have to be separated from the hype. If anyone should fail financially or emotionally or in any other way T. Harv Eker can say - "Didn't I tell you not to believe anything I say?" Don't buy the book, skim it and keep whats good, go to the website take whats free. I give the book 1/4 of a star, but Amazon has a 1 star minimum. This book is *THAT* bad. (((Important Note march 5, 2005 > Hi, I'm Albert from Toronto. Since posting my review someone has posted another review pretending to be me using my name "Albert" and he says that I apologize and retract my previous review - this review. I'm not retracting or apologizing for my review. I stand by it. Any reviews posted for this book other then this one are not written by me since this is the only review I've made and will make for this book. I'm the real Albert. Thanks.)))