I’ve Read 40 Books on Money… These 5 Will Make You Rich

About this video

The creator, who says he was $30,000 in debt at 24 living in his mother’s basement, presents five money books that changed his financial life. From The Psychology of Money he takes ’no one is crazy’: personal experience shapes most money beliefs, and doing well with money is mainly behaviour, not intelligence. From I Will Teach You to Be Rich he highlights big wins — negotiating salary or avoiding a large car payment matters more than cutting coffee — and automation: on payday, money splits automatically to a 401(k), Roth IRA, sub-savings accounts and bills, leaving guilt-free spending. The Simple Path to Wealth is reduced to three points: avoid and escape debt, spend less than you earn, and invest the rest in index funds. From Tony Robbins’s Money: Master the Game he draws market ‘seasons’ — crashes after WWII, 2008 and COVID all recovered — and compounding, illustrated by a doubling golf bet and the creator’s claim that most of Warren Buffett’s fortune came after age 65. From Poor Charlie’s Almanack he highlights inversion — asking how to stay poor or miserable to avoid those paths — and value investing, while noting Buffett’s stated plan to leave most of his wife’s inheritance in index funds. The video also includes a Zapier sponsorship segment.

Key takeaways

• Psychology of Money: money behaviour matters more than intelligence, and personal experience heavily shapes money beliefs
• I Will Teach You to Be Rich: prioritise big wins and automate payday splits to retirement, savings and bills before guilt-free spending
• The Simple Path to Wealth: avoid debt, spend less than you earn, and invest the difference in index funds
• Money: Master the Game: market downturns are seasonal and have historically recovered, and compounding produces most gains late
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: use inversion — define how to stay poor or miserable and avoid it — and learn mental models over stock-picking

Episode details: published June 22, 2026 · 12:33 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Clark Kegley’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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