Books
« Previous EntriesA review of Jonathan Clements’ “The Little Book of Main Street Money”
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Wiley’s Little Book series is a wee bit confusing in that there’s The Little Book That Beats the Market*, which is a stock-picking book. Then, in the same series there’s John Bogle’s The Little Book of Common Sense Investing*, a book essentially about indexing or passive investing. So, you read one book and [...]
Coming June 1st, 2009…
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009I have been talking about doing a project for months. Now I’m finally ready to do something.
Beginning June 1st, I want to do a community book review of Napoleon Hill’s The Law of Success*. A cheaper version ($10.99 vs. $30) of the book has become available and I think it would make an [...]
Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends & Influence People” Summarized
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009I have been reading (again) Dale Carnegie’s awesome book, How to Win Friends & Influence People*. If you haven’t yet read this book, you should give it a shot. Listed below is a summary of what the book is about. The book is divided into three parts with principles for each part. [...]
Congrats to Allan Roth for Getting His Book Reviewed in the NY Times!
Monday, April 13th, 2009Allan Roth’s book, How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street*, was reviewed in Sunday’s New York Times! That’s pretty sweet if you ask me. Anyway, you can read the review here: Off the Shelf - Advice in Two New Books, but Not From Talking Heads.
My friend Ron over at the Wisdom Journal also [...]
A Review (and GIVEAWAY) of “The NEW Coffeehouse Investor”
Thursday, April 9th, 2009I read and reviewed the predecessor to Bill Schultheis’ The New Coffeehouse Investor* a couple of years ago. I was impressed with the previous edition so I was excited when the publisher contacted me a couple of weeks ago and asked me if I would read and review the new edition.
I REALLY like this [...]
GIVEAWAY - Let’s Celebrate Ramit’s Book Making the NYT’s Best-Seller List!
Monday, April 6th, 2009Ramit’s book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich*, made the New York Times Best Seller List!
Congrats to Ramit!
To help celebrate Ramit’s accomplishment, I have decided to give away TWO copies of his book. If you would like a chance to win a copy, please leave a comment below. I’ll announce the winners [...]
A Short Review of “Teach and Retire Rich” by Dan Otter
Monday, April 6th, 2009Just because you are a teacher, doesn’t mean you have to settle for a cash-strapped retirement. There are plans available to teachers that if used properly, can help teachers have a comfortable retirement.
If you are a teacher and you don’t understand your retirement planning options, you NEED to read Teach and Retire Rich* by [...]
A Promo Video for Allan Roth’s New Book
Monday, March 30th, 2009I saw this on YouTube and thought it was worth sharing. Allan’s a good guy.
Allan’s book is out now. Check it out here*.
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A Short Review of Ramit Sethi’s Book, “I Will Teach You to be Rich”
Monday, March 23rd, 2009DISCLAIMER: I have been friends with Ramit for several years now and AllFinancialMatters is mentioned in Ramit’s book.
Okay, let’s say you want to be rich but your financial life stinks. You want to make changes but don’t know where to start. There are thousands of personal finance books out there but you don’t [...]
As Goes January, So Goes the Year? Not Last Year!
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Remember the other day when I posted about Sam Stovall’s book, , and his 7 rules of investing? At the time I wrote that post, I had not yet seen his book. Well, yesterday I read browsed through the book at Barnes & Noble and got some clarification on his point number 2, [...]
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