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List Price: $15.00Price: $2.96 You Save: $12.04 (80%)as of 03/16/2010 12:50 EDT
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6
Edition: Rev Exp
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 319
Publication Date: January 02, 2001
Publisher: Fireside
Studio: Fireside
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Product Description:
The Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of the New York Times Bestseller That Focuses on Personal Finance for Every Budget -- and Every Stage of Life
Taking control of your personal finances is the first -- and most important
-- step toward successful investing and a secure future. The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think, now fully updated and expanded, provides guidance for anyone trying to balance lifestyle aspirations and financial realities. The latest edition of this Motley Fool bestseller covers topics such as:
- Getting out of debt...and into the stock market
- Turning your bank account into a moneymaker
- Using Fool.com and the Internet to learn about all things financial -- from buying a home to getting the best deal on a car
- Saving enough to send your children to the colleges of their dreams
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Good book. good review of principles, easy to understand & implement. Highly recommend to anyone interested in improving their financial status, or just gaining better control of their money.
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I bought this book a good five years ago and ate it up. I have read it several times only to be reinforced in my investment approach - a well-diversified assortment of passive index funds, along with a few well chosen blue chips that pay regular dividends. Monthly automatic investments are now a way of life and though humble in its beginnings, my portfolio today is more than respectable in comparison with most of my "buy it new and yesterday" peers. The Gardner brothers style is informative, quirky, ... Read More
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Wow. This book was really, really, really useful. I'm one of those people who, until recently, never gave a second thought to savings or investment because I was always living paycheck to paycheck. Now that we have a little gbreathing room, my husband and I have been reading up on financial things of interest.
I HIGHLY recommend this book for your first one if you're absolutely clueless about personal finance. It takes a bunch of terms that many people find terrifying (stocks, bonds, ... Read More
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This book was a great read - I think tha's probably one of the benefits of reading a book on finances written by two English majors.
Pros:
- Helps you understand where to start in your personal world of finance. I especially enjoy the fact that there is an especially abhorrent attitude towards debt (i.e. - pay what you owe before you every try to put that money anywhere else).
- These guys don't promise any fast cash, but employ a methodology that tends to scream, "slow and ... Read More
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The title of this book reflects the optimism that it breathes from beginning to end. It makes you want to go for it, without encouraging hasty decisions, and encourages to read more. For true fools (I mean morons) like myself, the book adequately warns you to first get out of debt before trying to invest. The part that tells you how to get out of debt is brief but the advice is sane, and optimistic. Once ready to invest, we are adviced to use a buy-and-hold strategy, and the arguments for it seem to make ... Read More
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