Financial Success for the Rest of Us

Financial Success for the Rest of Us
Author: Tony Raygoza
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 161566131X

Tired of the all-too-common drudgery of struggling financially? Break the barrier of financial success with Tony Raygoza's new book, Financial Success For The Rest of Us Ten Proven Steps to Master Your Finances and Reach Your Goals. By following the financial program detailed here, you can literally save hundreds of thousands of dollars by expertly managing and investing your money. Financial Success For The Rest of Us is unique from other books in its category in that it provides comprehensive step-by-step guidance on all important aspects of managing and investing money in a concise, easy-to-read and understand format. From budgeting and wise spending to eliminating debt and maximizing return on investments, this book offers detailed instructions for all important facets of effectively managing personal finances. Through this book, Tony Raygoza provides the real-world financial knowledge that our educational system fails to deliver. If you are serious about becoming financially secure and reaching your goals, you must read Financial Success For The Rest of Us. It's one of the best investments you will ever make! What the Experts have to say about this Book 'My 2008 book, The Ten Roads to Riches, defines and details the 10 basic ways people can methodically get wealthy. Tony Raygoza's new book gives the layperson ten 'proven steps' down one of those roads-the one I call the Road More Traveled-which is how to be thrifty, save, and invest well, The most common way people get wealthy. Young people thinking of their future should be sure to read Tony's book, because what Tony offers really has time on its side for them.' -Ken Fisher, Founder and CEO, Fisher Investments, New York Times Bestselling author and Forbes' Portfolio Strategy Columnist 'There's much to learn about the world of personal finance, and this book covers many of the basics in a sensible, straightforward way. Heeding its advice can improve your financial condition considerably.' -The Motley Fool

The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition

The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition
Author: Dave Ramsey
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1595555285

Do you want to build a budget that actually works for you? Are you ready to transform your relationship with money? This New York Times bestseller has already helped millions of people just like you learn how to develop everyday money-saving habits with the help of America's favorite personal finance expert, Dave Ramsey. By now, you've already heard all of the nutty get-rich-quick schemes and the fiscal diet fads that leave you with a lot of quirky ideas but not a penny in your pocket. If you're tired of the lies and sick of the false promises, Dave is here to provide practical, long-term help. The Total Money Makeover is the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely changing your finances. And, best of all, these principles are based on results, not pie-in-the-sky fantasies. This is the financial reset you've been looking for. The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition will give you the tools and the encouragement you need to: Design a sure-fire plan for paying off all debt--from your cars to your home and everything in between using the debt snowball method Break bad habits and make lasting changes when it comes to your relationship with money Recognize the 10 most dangerous money myths Secure a healthy nest egg for emergencies and set yourself up for retirement Become financially healthy for life Live like no one else, so later you can LIVE (and GIVE) like no one else! This edition of The Total Money Makeover includes new, expanded "Dave Rants" that tackle marriage conflict, college debt, and so much more. The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition also includes brand new back-of-the-book resources to help you make The Total Money Makeover your new reality.

Freedom from Work

Freedom from Work
Author: Daniel Fridman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1503600262

“A refreshing and rigorous analysis of financial self-help that gets to the heart of identity formation in neoliberalism . . . sociology at its best.” —Peter Miller, London School of Economics In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal emphasis on responsibility, individualism, and entrepreneurship binds people together with the ropes of aspiration. Freedom from Work delves into a world of financial self-help in which books, seminars, and board games reject “get rich quick” formulas and instead suggest to participants that there is something fundamentally wrong with who they are, and that they must struggle to correct it. Fridman analyzes three groups who exercise principles from Rich Dad, Poor Dad by playing the board game Cashflow and investing in cash-generating assets with the goal of leaving the rat race of employment. Fridman shows that the global economic transformations of the last few decades have been accompanied by popular resources that transform the people trying to survive—and even thrive. “A gifted observer, Fridman’s ethnographic account uncovers a unique blend of morality and economics in self-help groups pursuing their dream of financial freedom. This book contributes to economic and cultural sociology but will also fascinate general readers.” —Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University “A wonderful portrait of how financial technologies of the self work in modern culture.” —Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley

Money, Purpose, Joy

Money, Purpose, Joy
Author: Matt Bell
Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Finance, Personal
ISBN: 9781600062797

More money, more stuff Money and things—the more we have, the more we want. Of course, we all know that “More” is a game that can’t be won. No matter how much we get, it’s never enough. But deep down inside, part of us clings to the hope that the next time will be different—with a little bit more we’ll be happier. So we keep up the pursuit. Fortunately, there’s a better way to manage our money and our lives: Turn toward home. Just as the prodigal son wandered from home and squandered his inheritance, so have many of us wandered from the financial home God prepared for us. In this inspiring and instructive book, financial writer and speaker Matt Bell helps you redirect your use of money to meet your deepest longings—to turn toward the life God intends for you.

The Financial Diaries

The Financial Diaries
Author: Jonathan Morduch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691172986

Drawing on the groundbreaking U.S. Financial Diaries project (http://www.usfinancialdiaries.org/), which follows the lives of 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigate through a year, the authors challenge popular assumptions about how Americans earn, spend, borrow, and save-- and they identify the true causes of distress and inequality for many working Americans.

I Want a Fat Asset: How to Achieve Financial Success

I Want a Fat Asset: How to Achieve Financial Success
Author: Susan L. Hirshman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429959509

Previously published as part of DOES THIS MAKE MY ASSETS LOOK FAT?. As Susan Hirshman sees it, the rules of successful dieting are the same rules that apply to successful money management. Now she offers these upbeat and informative tips that follows common dieting programs to help them understand their finances. From setting your goals to figuring out your net worth statement and understanding asset allocation to variable annuities, Susan offers specific advice on topics that matter most to women all while relating it back to a theme that practically every woman has experienced at least once in her life – dieting!. Susan's program completely removes the intimidation factor that often accompanies the words ‘personal finance' and 'investing' and provides women with all the information they need to take control of their financial situations once and for all.

Se Habla Dinero?

Se Habla Dinero?
Author: Lynn Jimenez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008
Genre: Hispanic Americans
ISBN: 9781119197942

Unconventional Success

Unconventional Success
Author: David F. Swensen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 074327461X

The bestselling author of Pioneering Portfolio Management, the definitive template for institutional fund management, returns with a book that shows individual investors how to manage their financial assets. In Unconventional Success, investment legend David F. Swensen offers incontrovertible evidence that the for-profit mutual fund industry consistently fails the average investor. From excessive management fees to the frequent "churning" of portfolios, the relentless pursuit of profits by mutual fund management companies harms individual clients. Perhaps most destructive of all are the hidden schemes that limit investor choice and reduce returns, including "pay-to-play" product-placement fees, stale-price trading scams, soft-dollar kickbacks, and 12b-1 distribution charges. Even if investors manage to emerge unscathed from an encounter with the profit-seeking mutual fund industry, individuals face the likelihood of self-inflicted pain. The common practice of selling losers and buying winners (and doing both too often) damages portfolio returns and increases tax liabilities, delivering a one-two punch to investor aspirations. In short: Nearly insurmountable hurdles confront ordinary investors. Swensen's solution? A contrarian investment alternative that promotes well-diversified, equity-oriented, "market-mimicking" portfolios that reward investors who exhibit the courage to stay the course. Swensen suggests implementing his nonconformist proposal with investor-friendly, not-for-profit investment companies such as Vanguard and TIAA-CREF. By avoiding actively managed funds and employing client-oriented mutual fund managers, investors create the preconditions for investment success. Bottom line? Unconventional Success provides the guidance and financial know-how for improving the personal investor's financial future.

Rich by Thirty

Rich by Thirty
Author: Lesley-Anne Scorgie
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2015-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1459729757

Financial analyst and public speaker Lesley-Anne Scorgie knows that the road to financial independence starts in young adulthood. Drawing on her personal experience, she presents the perfect advice about saving, investing, and budgeting. The book lays out everything twenty-somethings need to know to become financially savvy.

Strong Towns

Strong Towns
Author: Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119564816

A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.