Summary of John MacGregor's The Top 10 Reasons the Rich Go Broke

Summary of John MacGregor's The Top 10 Reasons the Rich Go Broke
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2022-03-31T22:59:00Z
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1669376265

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Everyone has the same problem when it comes to money: they use money to dull their pain rather than fulfill their purpose. Most people today are caught in a cycle of financial despair. #2 The financial crisis is the greatest epidemic in our society, and it’s affecting more people than all diseases combined. I wrote this book to help you understand how you can live abundantly and no longer stress about your finances. #3 The guidebook that comes with The Top 10 Reasons the Rich Go Broke is designed to help you understand your financial views, history, beliefs, standing, and even literacy. It will help you be more engaged in your financial education. #4 Curiosity and a sense of satisfaction are the two reasons people get involved in this book. The stories contained in this book are personal, and they concern people I know. They provide a glimpse into the minds of highly successful people who lost almost everything.

The Top 10 Reasons the Rich Go Broke

The Top 10 Reasons the Rich Go Broke
Author: John MacGregor
Publisher: RDA Press LLC
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1947588117

Learning from your mistakes makes you smart. Learning from other people’s mistakes makes you a genius. There are two ways to share knowledge, you can push information out or you can pull them in with story. A good story well told, can change the world. After 25 years in the trenches working with thousands of individuals and small business owners, John MacGregor opens the vault on 10 incredible stories that have the power to transform your financial life forever. In this book MacGregor reveals 10 real-life stories of people he encountered who had everythng and lost it all. It is here, MacGreogor reveals for the first time “The B.E.A.R Trap”, THE four underlying reasons why so many people go and stay broke. Using jaw dropping stories, this book answers and solves why: • 78% of people are living paycheck to paycheck • 65% of people could not come up with $400 today for an emergency expense • Why money is the #1 source of stress in our society • AND, why this problem is getting worse – not better - despite the thousands of how-to-books, DVD, and online resources available. Unlike the thousands of traditional “how-to” personal finance books that use traditional methods that rarely elicit change in people, these stories elicit something deep within the reader that allows people to make meaningful transformations in their life. The BEAR Trap formula is not only effective in your financial decision making, you can use it anywhere in your life to avoid painful outcomes and pitfalls. Though this is about the rich going broke, the amount of money doesn’t matter as everyone of these stories can pertain to you and your family

10 Ways to Stay Broke...Forever

10 Ways to Stay Broke...Forever
Author: Laura J. McDonald
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118586603

How to change your free-spending ways, live luxuriously on a budget, and build a sound financial future From the founders of GoldenGirlFinance.ca comes a new book on how to get your financial house in order and enjoy the freedom and happiness that comes with a secure financial future. In 10 Ways to Stay Broke. . . Forever, you'll learn why focusing on living well now is almost always a path to poverty later. You might have a new car, a beautiful house, and a wardrobe to die for, but you're shortchanging yourself if you haven't started saving and investing for retirement. In 10 Ways to Stay Broke . . . Forever, personal finance gurus Laura McDonald and Susan Misner show you how to start planning for tomorrow today. With simple guidance and straight talk about finances, they explain the things women do to stay broke and what you should do instead. From the founders of GoldenGirlFinance.ca, the leading personal finance site for Canadian women Written in an engaging, accessing, and conversational style that takes the fear out of the complex world of finance Features practical, actionable advice for taking control of your personal finances with real-life examples and handy tools Having money in your pocket is a great feeling. But there's no more amazing feeling than financial security. Having money in the bank means having power, possibility, and opportunity—and nothing feels better than that!

Going Broke

Going Broke
Author: Stuart Vyse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2008-01-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0198041942

Over the last three decades, debt, bankruptcy, and home foreclosures have risen to epidemic levels. To make matters worse, the personal savings rate is at its lowest point since the Great Depression. Why, in the richest nation on earth, can't Americans hold on to our money? Winner of the prestigious William James Book Award for Believing in Magic and an authority on irrational behavior, Stuart Vyse offers a unique psychological perspective on the financial behavior of the many Americans today who find they cannot make ends meet, illuminating the causes of our wildly self-destructive spending habits. But unlike other authors, he doesn't entirely blame the victim. Bringing together fascinating studies of consumer behavior, he argues that the mountain of debt burying so many of us is the inevitable byproduct of America's turbo-charged economy and, in particular, of social and technological trends that undermine our self-control. Going Broke illuminates everything from the rise of the credit card, to the increase in state lotteries and casino gambling, to the expansion of new shopping opportunities provided by toll-free numbers, home shopping networks, big-box stores, and the Internet, revealing how vast changes in American society over the last 30 years have greatly complicated our relationship with money. Vyse concludes both with personal advice for the individual who wants to achieve greater financial stability and with pointed recommendations for economic and social change that will help promote the financial health of all Americans. Engagingly written, with startling insights into modern consumerism and with poignant human-interest stories of people facing financial failure, Going Broke offers a provocative new perspective on American economic behavior that is likely to stir controversy and serious debate.

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
Author: Suze Orman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781573222976

From one of the worlds most trusted experts on personal finance comes a "route planner," identifying easy moves to get young people on the road to financial recovery and within reach of their dreams.

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781612680972

It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad -- the #1 Personal Finance book of all time -- and in Why the Rich Are Getting Richer, he makes his case... In this book, the reader will learn why the gap between the rich and everyone else grows wider. In this book, the reader will get an explanation of why savers are losers. In this book, the reader will find out why debt and taxes make the rich richer. In this book, the reader will learn why traditional education actually causes many highly educated people, such as Robert's poor dad, to live poorly. In this book, the reader will find out why going to school, working hard, saving money, buying a house, getting out of debt, and investing for the long term in the stock market is the worst financial advice for most people. In this book, the reader will learn the answers Robert found on his life-long search, after repeatedly asking the question, "When will we learn about money?" In this book, the reader will find out why real financial education may never be taught in schools. In this book, the reader will find out "What financially education is... really."

You're Not Broke, You're Pre-Rich

You're Not Broke, You're Pre-Rich
Author: Mapalo Makhu
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1776094603

If you are a millennial who is trying to figure out how money works, this book is for you. With simple, relatable and sometimes amusing stories about how to manage money on a day-to-day basis, you will learn how to change your mindset about money, get out of debt and stay debt-free, invest your money and, ultimately, live your best life. You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich will help you, the young professional, to think differently about money, while covering pertinent topics like black tax, savings, budgeting, emergency funds and financial scams, as well as estate and retirement planning (and why you should care right now!). It is the best class you never attended ... in a book!

Die Broke

Die Broke
Author: Stephen Pollan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 006184697X

From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you'll learn that life is a game where the loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. There are four steps to the process: Quit Today No, don't tell your boss to shove it...at least not out loud. But in your head accept that from this day on you're a free agent whose number one workplace priority is your personal bottom line. Pay Cash You should be as conscious of spending as you are of saving. Credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (buying homes and cars) when paying cash is impossible. Don't Retire Your work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss. Die Broke It sounds terrifying, the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now, fear of impoverishment in the long run.

Rich Bitch

Rich Bitch
Author: Nicole Lapin
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1460349202

Talking about money sucks; but so does being broke. Do your eyes glaze over just thinking about the mumbo-jumbo of finance? Do you break out into hives at the thought of money? Well, sister, you are not alone. In RICH BITCH, money expert and financial journalist Nicole Lapin lays out a 12-Step Plan in which she shares her experiences, mistakes and all, of getting her own finances in order. No lecturing, just help from a friend. And even though money is typically an off-limits conversation, nothing is off-limits here. Lapin rethinks every piece of financial wisdom you've ever heard and puts her own fresh, modern, sassy spin on it. Sure, there are some hard-and-fast rules about finance, but when it comes to your money, the only person who can spend it is you. Should you invest in a 401(k)? Maybe not. Should you splurge on that morning latte? Likely yes. Instead of nickel-and-diming yourself, Nicole's advice focuses on investing in yourself so you don't have to stress over the little things. But in order to do that, you have to be able to speak the language of money. After all, money is a language like anything else, and the sooner you can join the conversation, the sooner you can live the life you want, RICH BITCH rehabs whatever bad habits you might have and provides a plan you can not only sustain, but thrive with. It's time to go after the rich life you deserve, and confident enough to call yourself a RICH BITCH.

Makers and Takers

Makers and Takers
Author: Rana Foroohar
Publisher: Currency
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0553447254

Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial sys­tem propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the sys­tem, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.