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The Millionaire Fastlane

book · in 26 sources (2021–2025)

Sources by year: 2021: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2023: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2025: 9

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Also named in the threads: Book Club, Ali's series of book-summary videos (2020)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Alex Hormozi (8) · Noah Kagan (5) · business on easy mode (2) · Audible (5) · Book Club (4) · The 4-Hour Workweek (4) · passive income (4) · S&P 500 (2) · work optional (3) · Deep Dive (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2025

  • 2025-06-13 · He Built a $1M Business in 12 Months - Every Step Explained (Case Study) — recommendation: Ali gave Suhail three books to read, all of which he calls incredible: The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi and DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson. — 00:20:25
    • Suhail Idrees: Suhail took from The Millionaire Fastlane that of the three lanes, sidewalk, slow lane and fast lane, only the fast lane gives you leverage and divorces your time from wealth. — 00:22:37
    • Ali calls The Millionaire Fastlane the single best book he has read for an immediate firmware update on how to think about making money. — 00:26:30
    • Suhail Idrees: Suhail recommends that anyone who wants to start a business but does not know what to do read The Millionaire Fastlane, which he calls their ticket in. — 02:39:32
  • 2025-07-20 · Top 3 Financial Literacy Books for Students — recommendation: Ali: For students who want genuine financial literacy, Ali's first recommendation is to read The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-07-26 · My ONE Piece of Advice for Someone in Their 20s — recommendation: Ali: To start a first business, Ali suggests listening to five audiobooks such as Million Dollar Weekend, The Millionaire Fastlane, $100M Offers, The Sweaty Startup, Entrepreneur Revolution, Rich Dad Poor Dad or Main Street Millionaire; a tech startup needs different books. — 00:13:53
  • 2025-08-13 · Want to Start a Business? Read These Books First — recommendation: Ali: For anyone thinking of starting a business someday, Ali recommends five books: What's Your Dream? by Simon Squibb, DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson, The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, The Sweaty Startup by Nick Huber and $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi. — 00:00:00
    • Despite its slightly clickbaity title, Ali calls MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane one of the best books he has ever read on how to make money. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-09-14 · This book changed how I think about money — recommendation: Ali: Asked for a single book that helps create financial and time freedom, Ali recommends MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane, which did not exist when he started out, as the best book he has read on how to become financially free. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-11-28 · I've Read 417 books. These 4 will make you financially free — recommendation: Ali thinks The Millionaire Fastlane should be required reading for literally everyone, because it shows how money actually works; he could not recommend it more highly. — 00:05:21
    • For financial freedom Ali recommends reading four books in this order: The Millionaire Fastlane, $100M Offers, DotCom Secrets and finally Million Dollar Weekend. — 00:06:52
  • 2025-12-01 · How do I become the first millionaire in my family? — recommendation: Ali calls MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane the best book he has read on becoming a millionaire: a bit of a clickbaity title, but genuinely great, and a must-read if you want to get there. — 00:00:58
  • …and 13 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2024

  • 2024-04-23 · My honest advice to someone who wants financial freedom — recommendation: Ali's recommended reading list for getting started with entrepreneurship: The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan, $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi and DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson. — 00:26:39
    • If he could recommend just one book to everyone it would be The Millionaire Fastlane, Ali says: long, but it gives a real sense of the map of how to get rich. — 00:27:54
    • A friend to whom Ali recommended these books nine months ago read them, acted on them and now makes 35,000 a month from a software business. — 00:27:54
  • 2024-05-02 · The biggest misconception about starting a business 🙄 — recommendation: Ali: On starting a business without quitting your job, Ali recommends Noah Kagan's book Million Dollar Weekend, and also The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco and The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. — 00:00:38
  • 2024-08-20 · 3 Bad Habits Holding You Back from Financial Freedom — MJ DeMarco (quoted): In The Millionaire Fastlane, MJ DeMarco describes two paths to financial freedom, the slow lane and the fast lane, and defines even the fast lane as about 10 years long. — 00:01:38
    • Ali's business books for learning to build businesses: Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend, MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane, Codie Sanchez's new book, which he calls very good, Ankur Warikoo's Make Epic Money, Russell Brunson's DotCom Secrets and anything by Alex Hormozi. — 00:06:50

Also named in: Don't Quit Your Day Job Yet 🤔

2023

  • 2023-01-28 · 4 Books You Should Read in 2023 — recommendation: Ali names four books to consider reading in 2023: The Millionaire Fastlane, the single best business book he has read for people starting out in entrepreneurship; How to Not Die Alone for relationships, which he says completely changed his love life; Think Big for careers; and The Final Empire for fiction. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-02-26 · How to Invest for Beginners (2026) — Ali takes the terms slow lane and fast lane from MJ DeMarco's book The Millionaire Fastlane, which he calls a really good book. — 00:15:19
    • Ali calls MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane the best book he has ever read on making money quickly, meaning in the next 10 years rather than the next 60. — 00:19:42
  • 2023-07-14 · The 4 Best Books About Money - Part 3 📚 — MJ DeMarco (quoted): One of the key concepts of The Millionaire Fastlane, as Ali presents it, is creating a wealth system that generates passive income streams. — 00:00:00
  • …and 1 statement more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2022

  • 2022-01-07 · 15 Books To Read to Change Your Life — Ali: Despite its clickbaity title, Ali calls The Millionaire Fastlane probably the best book he has read on growing wealth and getting rich by building a business. (hedged) — 00:14:02
    • MJ DeMarco (quoted): In The Millionaire Fastlane, MJ DeMarco contrasts the slow lane to wealth (college, a good job, saving, a house and stocks, rich at 65) with the fast lane: a business that works for you, which can make you quite rich within five to ten years. — 00:14:31
  • 2022-03-03 · How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube — recommendation: Ali: YouTubers need not read business books, but if you consciously treat your creative side hustle as a business, Ali says business books such as The Great CEO Within, The Millionaire Fastlane and Traction are a solid library to learn from. — 00:21:36
  • 2022-03-21 · The Biggest Lessons from 110 Books — recommendation: Ali: The Millionaire Fastlane is one of the books Ali most recommends to anyone thinking of starting a business: encyclopedic, packed with useful insights and easy to read. — 00:15:54
  • 2022-04-29 · How to Invest as a Teenager — recommendation: Ali: To build a fastlane mindset, Ali calls The Millionaire Fastlane one of his favourite books about making money of all time and recommends it to teenagers and anyone else. — 00:06:47
    • MJ DeMarco (quoted): The Millionaire Fastlane says getting rich quick, meaning in under 10 years, is not necessarily a bad thing, while getting rich easy does not exist. — 00:06:47
    • To move from trading time for money with a service to a productised service, Ali points to The Millionaire Fastlane, Take Your Shot and The 4-Hour Workweek, and says the process is not that hard. — 00:17:54
  • 2022-06-30 · You’re Saving for a Life You’ll Never Live — Ali: With passive income, Ali says, a small initial effort can snowball into more and more wealth almost effortlessly; growing The Millionaire Fastlane's money trees could in theory make you a millionaire without working past 30. — 00:09:23
  • 2022-11-22 · What happened to these two brothers? #shorts — Ali: In a parable from The Millionaire Fastlane, two brothers in ancient Egypt, 4,000 years ago, compete to build two pyramids, and the winner is to get a lifetime of riches from the pharaoh. (fiction) — 00:00:00
    • Ali calls The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco, the source of the pyramid parable, a fantastic book. — 00:00:29
  • …and 1 statement more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

2021

  • 2021-06-06 · How I Built 9 Streams of Income By 23 — Ali is reading The Millionaire Fastlane, which says that to make millions you have to impact millions, calling it the "law of affection" (as heard); for Ali, to make money you have to impact people. — 00:05:32
    • To learn the streams-of-income approach Ali recommends three books: The 4-Hour Workweek, The Millionaire Fastlane and Take Your Shot by Robin Waite. — 00:13:45
  • 2021-10-08 · The Best Book I've Ever Read about Making Money — Ali calls MJ DeMarco's The Millionaire Fastlane probably the single best book he has read on how to build a business that makes money; a friend told him to ignore its clickbaity title. (hedged) — 00:00:00
    • MJ DeMarco (quoted): In The Millionaire Fastlane the slow lane, probably your parents' generation's path, is school, good grades, a decent job, climbing the ladder, saving and investing part of each paycheck, and being rich at retirement. — 00:01:40
    • MJ DeMarco (quoted): The second slow-lane trap in The Millionaire Fastlane is raising your market value, for example with an MBA: your time is worth more, but you are still trading time for money. — 00:02:39
    • MJ DeMarco (quoted): The first money tree in The Millionaire Fastlane is a rental system, renting out something you own: properties, or licensing, such as a musician licensing their audio. — 00:05:23
    • MJ DeMarco (quoted): The second money tree in The Millionaire Fastlane is a distribution system connecting people who want something with its suppliers, such as Amazon as middleman between buyers and sellers. — 00:05:52
    • Ali listened to The Millionaire Fastlane on Audible; it is very dense and reads more like a textbook than a storybook, which he likes, and he recommends it. — 00:14:02
  • …and 3 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021