If you want to be the best, you have to learn from the best.

“Successful people look at other successful people as a means to motivate themselves,” writes T. Harv Eker in “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.” “They see other successful people as models to learn from. They say to themselves, ‘If they can do it, I can do it.'”

Business Insider asked several successful people about the smartest thing they ever did with their money.

If you want to start building wealth, take notes on what they had to say:

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