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The book that dares to say wealth and faith belong together

How to Be Happy Though Rich

a book every poor person should read!

Can a Christian be wealthy? Peter J. Daniels answers with his life: from bricklayer to millionaire land developer, he lays out thirteen unflinching truths about what wealth really is, commitment, responsibility, power, pressure, sacrifice, and why God trusts some people with it. Endorsed by Robert Schuller, John Haggai, and the President of Amway.

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From the foreword

The motto printed on the back of a Rolls Royce

The foreword tells it straight: a boy from a broken home who quit school at fourteen, branded illiterate by his teacher. A messenger boy, a cleaner, a milk vendor, a factory hand, then a bricklayer trying to break into the building industry. Then a night in 1959, at a Billy Graham Crusade with his wife Robina, that changed everything.

The realisation that hit the young battler was simple and seismic: if all men are equal before God, then no one need look down on him as a no hoper ever again.

“I'm the son of a King!” Peter Daniels, the motto since printed on the back of his Rolls Royce

That is the man who wrote this book: a millionaire who earns to give and to employ others in furthering the Word of God, who insists a Christian should control his money and never be controlled by it, and who freely admits his failings alongside his success. Reading how a Christian deals with wealth, the foreword concludes, is reading the Peter Daniels story.

The chapter nobody warns you about

Three things every person of wealth can be certain of

Daniels defines a person of wealth as anyone who has more than someone else, which means this includes you. And he opens the chapter on criticism with a list most money books are too polite to print:

1

You are going to die sometime

The stewardship clock is running whether you plan or not.

2

You are going to pay taxes

Wealth lives in the real world of obligation, not a daydream.

3

You are going to be criticized

As certain as the other two, and the book shows you how to carry it.

Thirteen chapters, one honest definition at a time

What wealth actually is

Every chapter completes the same sentence differently, and each answer is one Daniels paid for in full before writing it down.

ONEWealth Is Relative
Why we always measure against those with more, never those with less, and the Beatles clip that taught Daniels how judgement ages.
TWOWealth Is Commitment
Waking every morning in debt to the needs of others, and paying it daily.
THREEWealth Is Responsibility
The industrialist's last evening with his son before handing over fifty years of wealth.
FOURWealth Is Accountability
The ledger you keep before God long before any auditor sees it.
FIVEWealth Is Leadership
If you are a Christian you are a leader elect; if you are not leading, you are a leader in abdication.
SIXWealth Is Power
A good power, if earned, developed and used under the principles of God.
SEVENWealth Is Influence
What your money says to people you will never meet.
EIGHTWealth Is Pressure
Living in the fast lane without being crushed by it, and why escape is just abdication in disguise.
NINEWealth Is Sacrifice
No free lunches: if you do not give, you do not get.
TENWealth Means Criticism
The three certainties, and how to keep critics from crushing your spirit.
ELEVENWealth Is Courage
The nerve it takes to build openly in a world that resents builders.
TWELVEWealth Is For You
Wealth is for you if you want it, and the down payment is total personal responsibility.
THIRTEENWealth, The Challenge
The four questions Daniels put to a drifting young leader named Gary, and puts to you.
“How to be Happy Though Rich is not about getting, it's about giving. Read it and increase your self-worth.”
Dr. Robert H. Schuller, Hour of Power Television Ministry

From the book's own endorsement pages

The men who built empires endorsed it

“Peter Daniels invested more than 50 years writing this book! How do I know? Because it is the distilled essence of his life long odyssey. I have read and reread this book. Internalise its truths. How? By space repetition, reading it at least six times. Make it your manual for maximising the resources God has given you. I immediately ordered 100 copies to give to my friends.”

Dr. John HaggaiFounder and President, Haggai Institute of Advanced Leadership Training

“Peter Daniels has realized the truth of the parable of the ten talents; the faithful steward is entrusted with additional talents, additional opportunity, and additional responsibility.”

Paul J. MeyerChairman of the Board, SMI International Inc.

“In this book Peter Daniels wrestles with what many Christians confuse between riches and their faith. You will enjoy his views.”

Richard M. DeVosPresident, Amway Corporation

“As his pastor at the Edwardstown Baptist Church for the last seven years, it has been my delight to observe Peter Daniels' strong and sincere support for his local church. The message of this book has been lived out among us and within his own family.”

Ian DunnEdwardstown Baptist Church, South Australia

Daniels writes verse as well as balance sheets

Life is not a dress rehearsal

Life is not a dress rehearsal,
in a kaleidoscope parade,
it's a time of guts and thinking,
it is honour unafraid.

Life is not a dress rehearsal,
every day is opening night.
Now's the time to reach the goals,
now's the time to stand and fight.

The full poem opens the book, and a second, Where Are the Leaders?, closes it.

About the author

My faith in God is my whole life

A millionaire land developer, one of Australia's top motivational speakers, and a Christian who insists nothing he is involved in can be divorced from Christian belief. This book is his testimony and his guide to living that way, dedicated to his mentor and friend W. Clement Stone, who understood its contents better than anyone he knew.

  • Built international real estate ventures from a bricklayer's start
  • Director on the boards of national and multinational companies
  • Served with the Robert Schuller Ministries, Youth For Christ International, and the Haggai Institute
  • Founded the Festival of Light as a moral campaigner
  • Author of How to Reach Your Life Goals and a string of successful books

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No, and Robert Schuller's endorsement names the difference: this book is not about getting, it is about giving. Daniels' argument is stewardship, that wealth earned under God's principles is a tool, a responsibility and a trust, never a trophy. He is as blunt about the pressure, sacrifice and criticism wealth brings as he is about its power to fund the work of God.
The subtitle answers you: a book every poor person should read. Chapter one argues that all wealth is relative, and that compared with the world's genuinely destitute, almost every reader of this page is already rich, which means its questions of stewardship, commitment and courage are already yours.
Yes. The PDF reads beautifully on any phone, tablet, or computer, and you can return to your member library from any device, any time.
Yes. The paperback edition is available now on Amazon under the World Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies imprint, part of The Peter J. Daniels Collection: order the paperback here. If you want the book tonight, the digital edition is the one that arrives in the next two minutes.
Thirteen focused chapters across 122 pages, each one a complete argument you can read in a sitting, framed by two of Daniels' own poems. Dr. Haggai's advice in the endorsements is to read it six times; it is built for exactly that.

One last word

Every day is opening night

Life is not a dress rehearsal, Daniels writes, and neither is your stewardship of everything already in your hands. Thirteen honest answers about wealth, from a man whose critics went quiet decades ago, for less than the price of a takeaway.

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