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If You Want to Break Out of the Middle Class, Avoid These Money Habits The ease of falling into these unproductive money traps is dangerously high.

By Phil Town

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In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Phil Town discusses how people in the middle class often have only $1,000 in savings and piles of debt.

So, if your goal is to break out of the middle class and retire comfortably, here are a few habits -- or "traps" -- you should avoid:

  1. Having no emergency funds.
  2. Not investing enough.
  3. Having no trust in the stock market (putting away money in a 401K is just the start)
  4. Not thinking long-term.

Town recommends only buying things when it is absolutely required. Invest everything else.

Click the video to hear more.

Related: The Biggest Risks (and Rewards) of Investing

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Phil Town is an Investment Advisor, Hedge Fund Manager, 2x New York Times Best-Selling Author of Rule #1 & Payback Time, and Ex-Grand Canyon River Rafting Guide. Rule #1 Investing is Warren Buffett style investing, teaching you how to buy businesses on sale, with little risk and 15 percent returns. In fact, Rule #1 investing is practically immune to the ups and downs of the stock market.

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