Rich Is A Religion is a breakthrough book:

The one you must read BEFORE you set off on any investment methodology or personal financial plan. And the one you must use to test the validity and the effectiveness of the financial route you are on now. 

That is because Rich Is A Religion challenges the assumptions upon which most financial planning is based. It provides a clear and straightforward philosophy and methodology for: 

•  Making more money than you ever thought possible in your life.
•  Protecting that money for your entire life regardless of prevailing economic conditions.
•  Living the kind of life you want to live: doing what you want to do, enjoying your days, having personal independence-- all fueled and protected by a financial bedrock you build and no one and nothing can take from you.

Rich Is a Religion explores-- in personal stories with affluent people, multi millionaires and billionaires the author has known and worked with--the mindset that leads to a wealthy life. The Rich get rich and stay rich because of a set of unique behaviors and strategies revealed in this book:

•  You don't simply count money, you think about it.  Specifically, how to truly make it work for you.
•  Money is not simply currency. To live the religion of the rich, you must treat money as the currency of life.
•  The rich have a secret they do not share but the author, a member of this fraternity, reveals it for the first time. 
•  To truly have wealth and the independence that goes with it, you must learn to make make money while you sleep.
•  Keeping up with the Joneses is a futile exercise that does nothing but sap your wealth and your personal joy. Far better is to keep up with the Buffett's (Warren and his wife have billions and yet live in the same home they purchased in the 1950's for $31,000 - because they are quite happy there and have  no need to impress anyone.) check in book year of purchase and price of house. It's in the book.
• Recognize that the giant brokerage firms that seek to gain control of your accounts are simply marketing machines that profit for themselves but fail the vast majority of Americans. The homeowners caught in the disaster of the sub-prime fiasco. The millions of baby boomers who cannot afford to retire.

Stevens, a multimillionaire himself, describes his journey to the religion of the rich. The epiphany he gained as a 17 year old left with $84 and no assets when his father died suddenly at 40 and the son had to support his sister and mother. It was then, in the climb from poverty to wealth- in his encounters with such friends and clients as John Hay Whitney, Carl Icahn, Bill Hayes, former Treasury Secretary Bill Simon, Saul Steinberg - that Stevens learned  the secrets of the fraternity and brings them to you in this essential read at a critical period in our nation. Our economy. Your lives.