Being a millionaire (especially at a young age) needs high dedication, careful planning, and diligent in saving. The young and popular artists, athletes, and entrepreneurs do look cool either by chance or by being gifted with talent, but in fact everything they achieve is the result of perseverance and dedication.Â
Anyone who wants to be rich in just a few years and remain committed to principles, willing to take the time, and work hard, will surely succeed. Millionaire have many meanings.Â
David Guralnik in his book Webster New World Dictionary (2012) said that millionaire is a person whose wealth comes to at least a million dollars, pounds, euros, etc. There are many ways to become a millionaire.Â
One of them is by doing business. Many sectors that we can choose to develop business. We can choose sectors such as fashion, culinary, online shop to develop business. Beside choosing business field, there are a few basic things that should be done for becoming a millionaire at a young age.
Education is important for us. It give us a lot of knowledge and skills. All we have to do is choosing education that suits us (Rengganis 2015). Choosing education is very important for us because if we don't like education that we choose, the result will not be good. For example is the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. He likes everything that related with technologies and computer so he studied Computer Science at Harvard University.Â
At first he created a social networking system called Facebook for his class. But after he created the system, a lot of people joined and this system got popular. From here he has an idea to develop Facebook.Â
Then he rented a small place in Palo Alto, California as a place to develop Facebook. He developed this system with hard work and unyielding spirit. As time goes by, he succeeded to make Facebook into a big company. Because of his success in making this facebook system, he succeeded to become a millionaire at the age of 25. That's an example of choosing education sector that suits us. Â
The ability in organizing money is also needed. This ability is needed so that our money is not wasted. There is a lot of tempations for us to waste our money. But, don't be easily tempted to buy a stuff that is not in need.Â
We should make a list of what we need to avoid the wasteful habits. Furthermore, another way to organize our money is by investing our money in capital market. By investing in capital market we can get a lot of benefits. One of which is dividend. Therefore, it is important for us to organize our money in the right way.
Overall, if we want to be a millionaire especially at a young age we have to follow basic advises that are mentioned above. Don't forget to pray, because if we just try without praying our effort will be useless.
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