Thomas J. Stanley (1944 – February 28, 2015)[1] was an American writer and business theorist.
His father worked as a subway car driver, while his mother was a homemaker and secretary.
[6] He attended college in Connecticut, doing graduate work at the University of Tennessee.
Stanley spent most of his career studying how the financially successful Americans in a wide range of professions and with a varying level of income acquired their wealth on their own.
[8] During his last days, he was working on a book with his daughter, an industrial psychologist, who later finished it.