How to Grow Your Money the Smart and Easy Way
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I bought this for my husband and he read it after he read A Beginner's Guide to Investing: How to Grow Your Money the Smart and Easy Way. He said compared to the first book he read this second one was more technical and a bit harder to read. Seems like you need a little bit more experience and knowledge to truly get the most out of this book.
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This is an easy to read book written in a conversational manner. Written in true Azizi Ali style, this book contains no BS and is straight to the point. He explains all things pertaining to personal finance and gives the reader some really helpful advice from how much reserve funds you should have to the basics of investing to how to vet through potential financial advisors to how to create an estate plan. He even covers how you can tell if an "investment" instrument sounds too good to be true. As you read this book, you've got to keep an open mind and be ready for some tried and tested ways (that may sometimes appear to be radical to some people) on accumulating and managing money.
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I enjoyed immensely John Bogle's book on how to invest in the stock and bond markets. It is down to earth, easy to understand for us "little people." I have been a fan of his thinking and Vanguard Group funds for years. It will not offer excitement for the thrill seekers diving into the market to make a killing. However, if you like me just want to make slow and steady money, this is the book for you.
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Living successfully in the twenty-first century means insisting on finding truth and living truth while those around you live the lies.  America may be a country full of commerce and innovation, but it is also a country full of people who are largely ignorant when it comes to money.  Steve Forbes, a man who has some experience with money, offers a book that is simple, yet very smart.  I highly recommend getting a copy of Money for yourself and another for a friend or a local library.

I received a free electronic advance review copy through Net Galley for my honest review of the book.
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Investing is like driving down a highway with the windshield blacked out and only the rear view mirror to guide you.

Paul Merriman's Live It Up Without Outliving Your Money! is a comprehensive road map to a financially secure retirement. He shows how to determine how much money you'll need to retire when you want, in the way that you want; how to establish how much your investment portfolio needs to be worth when you retire, and he shows you the kinds of investments that will give you the returns you need to reach your goals. Then he explains how to choose the right distribution plan to provide both the income you need in retirement and the peace of mind that you won't run out of money.

You'll learn how to construct and maintain a "perfect" portfolio tailored to your personal tolerance for risk, and how to organize your finances so you don't have to spend a lot of time on them.

Based on Nobel Prize-winning research, Merriman's investment strategies combine passively managed no-load asset class mutual funds to create low-cost, tax efficient portfolios with worldwide diversification. "What investors need most is a strategy with enough power in good times to generate positive returns, coupled with enough protection in bad times to keep them from bailing out in discouragement," says Merriman. He discusses the psychology of successful investing and managing your emotions so you don't sabotage your own plans.

Using many charts and graphs, he makes complex subjects easy to understand, and his passion and enthusiasm are motivating and inspiring.

There's also a dedicated Live It Up! web site that includes fund recommendation updates and links to additional source material.

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Live It Up! is really a book everyone should read. Highly recommended.
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In this easy to read and easy to understand book, you will find priceless,  ageless advice for creating, building and maintaining wealth, woven into a  wonderful story. This book will make for compelling, invaluable reading for  anyone--men or women, boys or girls--from ages 10--109 for generations to  come, with an eye for improving your financial standing in life. You will  thoroughly enjoy reading it because it's a great story, and you will refer  to it, and re-read it again and again for its usefulness. If only college  investment textbooks could be this good!
Apply the author's message to  your life, and you will reap both monetary and spiritual rewards!
1989364
This book is written in clear, easy to follow prose at a level everyone can understand and even enjoy.  It is well organized and I especially like it's progression.  In the Introduction Paul Rubillo tells why you need to read the book.  He then proceeds to describe common sense ways to save more and invest more.  He suggests a number of common sense things that we easily overlook such as Step 8 in Chapter 2: "Determine Spending Goals as a Family".  Simple but very very important.  There are many of these pearls in this book.  As he goes through the book he guides you gradually into investing in the stock market, his favorite vehicle for accumulating (and keeping) wealth.  He describes what you should learn before investing your hard earned money and gives you some basic but important rules to use when investing in stocks.  He proceeds to describe how to pick stocks and how to sell stocks (also extremely important).  The final two chapters describe the concept and relevance of investing in stocks that pay dividends and some techniques investors should understand.  I think this book is a must for any investor's library and, when coupled with his excellent website "Dividend.com", can easily be the foundation for your retirement.  If one is lucky enough to read and follow the advice given in this book one will certainly become a "Dividend Millionaire".  The sooner you buy and read this book the better.
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Excellent advice in a unique format. If you seriously want to growth wealth, you need to read, study and understand this material. Some readers may not understand or agree, but that's alright. The rest of us will steam ahead and leave them at the train station wondering where everyone went.
I enjoyed the read, the stories and appreciated the golden nuggets dropped along the way. Great book George!!
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Have you ever wondered why it always seems like the government has an infinite amount of money, but for some reason the dollars you earn and invest seem to purchase less and less each year? Have you ever felt like investment gurus and financial advisors only care about people who already have money? Do you want to save for your future, your kid's college, and have financial freedom during retirement? And finally, have you ever wished there was a great long-term investment you could make that would grow continually, but be free of penalties if you need to withdraw a portion of the investment to pay for life events?

If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, then David's book is for you. What David has done in this easy-to-read primer to personal banking, is combine over a hundred years of economic thought and investment banking into a handbook for achieving financial freedom through a little-known investment that the rich have used for years to protect their wealth.

Want to save for your kid's college while also setting them up for retirement? This book shows you how. Want to learn how to invest in a way that gives you freedom and control over your investment, in a way that is much safer than gambling in the stock market? This book shows you how.

In the first chapters, David shows you how the banking business and government work together almost in collusion to make many investments a losing battle...or a big risk at the very least. He then works to show you how investments that are truly good take advantage of the magic of compound interest. Then once you have a firm understanding of what makes a good investment, he introduces you to an investment tool that allows you to reap compound interest, while STILL USING YOUR MONEY.

In the tradition of great economists like Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Henry Hazlitt -as well as banking and investment innovators like R. Nelson Nash -- David Lukas understands the forces that affect your money and your investments. And he provides you with a very practical, almost libertarian, way to achieve control of your financial future.

I have been a client of David's for over a year, and the advice he put in this book is the same advice he gave me on Day 1 working with him. And it's the best decision I ever made. Read this book, understand the concepts, and gain control of your future today.
1000541
I loved this book that teaches you to live simple,not to be hooked with garbage of buying unnecessary . Recommend this to all that opens our eyes on spending smartly.
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Having started as a "trade the latest news" or using fundamentals like the majority of people out there, I realized how difficult it was to get good trading results on a consistent basis, unless you we're an insider like Warren Buffett and got the "real" scoop on the numbers of any company out there, you're bound to lose you're money 'cause you just don't know if those numbers are real or not through "creative accounting". When I bumped in the "Market Wizards" books and Micheal Covel's entire trend following book catalogue, it opened my eyes to the Truth; that the trend is your friend afterall, it won't lie to you and cheat you out of your money. You'll learn to set up a trend following system, learn to manage your risk which is fundamental to trend following trading, learn to cut your losses and most importantly you'll sleep like a baby at night. When you realize how easy it is to trade your way to profits through trend following, you'll never go back to any other trading methods again. I personally spend 45 minutes a day on my trading and generate above average results and the truth is so can you. It'll boggle your mind how simple the strategy is, I finally realized the simpler the system the better the results, the more complex the less robust the results are. Please, please, please order this book and the others, take notes, implement a system, test it and have fun. You don't have to be a genius or have a Phd to trade like myself or Micheal Covel.
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This book starts out with common sense ways to save money. Saving money is an important first step to coming up with money to invest.  The author helps debunk so much of those "experts" out there who want to charge various fees to "manage" portfolios which amounts to asset allocation rebalancing 4 times a year. Is it really worth 1% or more of your assets to have some expert try to "beat the market" on your behalf?  Ask yourself this.  If he is so good, how come he is still working for a brokerage seeking to manage accounts the size of yours?  This book stands to save me a pile of money going forward. Good job, Andrew Tobias!
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If you don't know about the many way there are to make money grow, this is the book that explains all.

Every working person trying to decide where to put their money for the best possible outcome, needs the information within this book.

Every household should have the information within this book to increase their wealth for daily use and towards retirement.

I highly recommend this book, and it's easy to read with humor.
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Mr. Lynch has shown us here how to invest (not trade) successfully, one can just use common sense. For example observe people in the malls: What store do they walk in most? Where are most of the crowd headed? Take note  of the stores/businesses. Ask your wife/husband what their friends buy,  where do they shop at? What products are they talking about at your  husband/wife/children's work/party? These are all clues as to what business  is selling more and will have a greater earnings for the upcoming year.  Watch the competitors, who are they and are they selling more?
Basically  by applying all the basic observations in the daily life of a business and  *networking* information from family/friends, once can spot the  "10-baggers" (a company whos's stock price will be 10 times  higher in the future.)
It is written in a plain and non technical way for  the general investor to understand what investing is all about. A very  useful book.
Thanks Steve.
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Are you now making money online? Are you making as much money as you want? If not, 5 Easy Ways to Earn Money Online, is for you. M.L. Fitz has researched, discovered, and shared little-known opportunities to make money legitimately from your home. She explains how to motivate yourself, set goals, and get organized. Thereafter, she surprises you with simple but effective methods to earn some "decent change" or if you want, some serious money!

This book, although it has some formatting blunders, is NOT to be confused with any quick-rich schemes, multilevel-marketing plans, or scams. Instead you will be pleasantly delighted with some bona-fide money-making opportunities.

I recommend 5 Easy Ways to Earn Money Online for anyone new to making money with their computer.

My favorite quote: "The amount of money you can make . . . will depend solely upon the amount of time and effort that you are willing to invest."
M.L. Fitz
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Looking for a book about investing with all the typical, hard to understand jargon and get rich quick ideas.  This isn't it.  This is common sense, easy to understand and proven ways for you to secure your financial future.  Craig draws from the years of actual, repeatable success of his clients for this book.  It's not full of "investment jargon", but straight forward and easy to grasp.  "Where there's mystery, there's margin" is an old phrase that could be applied to the investment world.  And, where there's mystery and financial volatility there are more get rich schemes and sure things than ever.  That's why Craig's book is so timely and refreshing.  I highly recommend the book and Craig.
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Mr. Kiyosaki has put together a no-nonsense guide to wealth accumulation.  There are no ten steps to massive wealth or futile predictions of stock market bust or boom (See "Where are All The Customers Yachts?"), just a strategy to go from being poor (a mindset) to realizing that while you may be financially broke you are only poor if you decide to be.  Along the way a fundamental financial principle is defined, that of assets and liabilities.  Simply understanding the difference (or not) can make or break you.  Assets increase in value over time while (to many) liabilities bleed you dry financially.
Beyond that, the emphasis of the book is on working to learn as opposed to working for money while letting your money work for you.  Granted, you and I and everyone else not the offspring of a millionaire will (out of necessity) spend lots of time working for a paycheck.  During those times it's not so much the money earned that is of importance but the experiences and insights into the way business operates, the way deals are made, and awareness of opportunities that open up every day.
In a nutshell Rich Dad Poor Dad suggests that the reader should:
1) Learn as much as possible and try to continually surround themselves with people smarter than they are.
2) Understand assets and liabilities; focus on building assets while minimizing liabilities.
3) Understand how money flows, particularly the tax implications of various investments and financial maneuvers.
4) Develop the resources and contacts necessary to take advantage of opportunities as they become available.
This book will not make you rich; it will make you think and open your eyes to strategies of the rich mindset.  Once you have the right mindset, the rest is up to you!