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7 ways of achieving millionaire status

• Invent

Inventing is a tough road to take, but if you’ve got the smarts to successfully create, patent, produce and market a product that people need (and thus, will buy in droves), you can build your future millionaire life on it. Successful inventions aren’t necessarily complicated or high-tech items, either; James Dyson invented a better vacuum cleaner, and Gianfranco Zaccai invented a better mop, the Swiffer. Seems like things that help people clean more efficiently might be a good market to pursue.

• Innovate

Innovation is the fine art of considering a current mainstream market and finding a creative way to improve the current offering. Successful innovators will identify the real needs behind customer demands, and will meet them with a smarter, better, more efficient product, or with a service that provides more than its competitors, or with a business that works in a way just different enough to stand out from the rest.

• Don’t Think You Know It All

The moment you think you have nothing left to learn is the moment you kill your potential for becoming a millionaire. Especially if you’re interested in building your wealth through inventing or innovating, you have to be curious, open-minded and always learning. Those qualities allow you to look at old things in a new way, to see the potential for change and profit where others see only what already had been done.

•   Invest

Warren Buffett, the self-made millionaire, is famous for his frugal ways and for his smart investments. Investing, of course, requires a little seed money and some accurate insight into what investments are smart and what are a waste of money. If you can follow in the footsteps of millionaire investors like Buffett, then this might be the route for you.

•  Don’t Make foolish Investments

The latest and greatest is always fun to talk about, and one of the pitfalls of would-be millionaires is to jump in on the “next big thing” which doesn’t always turn out to be so big. Investors who make millions from their investments avoid flashy, fun and high-risk picks and instead choose those with long-term potential to provide great returns. Real estate, energy, steel, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and energy are among the picks, while high-tech and intriguing but risky options may go either way.

•  Become an Entrepreneur

Another creative way of achieving millionaire status is by considering entrepreneurial pursuits. Starting a business and taking it to success isn’t always easy, but for those with good business sense and the ability to spot start-ups that have potential to be great, entrepreneurship can be the vehicle to great wealth. millionaire entrepreneurs might work in one of two ways: either by coming up with a great idea and taking it all the way, as in the case of Bill Gates and Microsoft. Or by spotting someone else’s good idea and investing in it early on, helping to carry it to huge success. Both are viable ways to reach success that can get you into the billions of dollars when it comes to your own net worth. (Quit your job; be your own boss and earn a paycheck. Find out what to do to make it happen, in Start Your Own Small Business.)

• Don’t give up Too Soon

Entrepreneurial types who succeed must realize that success rarely comes overnight. One business idea might not pay off, but the next might. Or your company might hit a low point, and you have to make the choice to hang on with it and bring it back or let your dream die and your debt increase. It’s not easy to build something from scratch, especially when your something is a fortune of millions. Time is on your side, if you don’t rush it.

•  Summary

Of course, luck has something to do with success; it helps to be in the right place at the right time. However, if you don’t know what to do when you’re there, luck won’t help you out much. Smart choices, smart investments and long-term learning and growing will however; once you hit that first million, remember you heard it here.