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Summary: Overrated and simplistic
Review: Ms. Orman treatment of financial matters are rather basic in this book. Only beginners will get much information. Some of the advice is somewhat inaccurate (for example, recommendations on taking on a 15 year morgage).
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Summary: Buy this book, it will open your eyes to money.
Review: Suze has once again written a book that will change the way people relate to their money. If you want to know how to talk to your partner about money, how to get rid of the clutter in your life that is keeping money away from you, what an IRA really is, or you are buying a home, this book is for you. This book will change the way you think about your money. BUY IT.
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Summary: Technical @ some complicated subjects brilliantly simplified
Review: This book is difficult to put down once you start reading. Suze has the gift of being able to explain all types of solutions to financial situations in which we might find ourselves,in easily understood terms.
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Summary: Codified Common Sense, For The Most Part
Review: Practically anyone could have written this book - which is not to say it's entirely worthless, just not surprising or original. This is an exercise in the marketing of common-place ideas, but at least the ideas are sensible. The book is not actively harmful.
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Summary: O.K. But Not Nearly as Good As MONEY TALKS
Review: Suze Orman's new book is a reiteration of the same old,same old....A much better book that is far more thought provoking,practical and has received critical acclaim is Robert Koppel's Money Talks:Candid conversations of wealth in America.
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Summary: Fraudulent "Expert" for the Gullible
Review: Suze Orman's "credentials" in finance are totally fraudulent. She has no college background in finance and she's largely made up her experience in the financial world. She was never a broker, just a secretary to one. Her tone throughout her new book, and on the PBS series accompanying it, is patronizing and barely masks her true motive--making more money. Indeed, she doesn't hide the fact that making money is akin to finding God--after all, Orman has admitted consulting her crystals before making financial decisions.The title of her book is OFFENSIVE, as it implies that accumulating wealth is, or should be, one's chief life goal, and that becoming rich is simply a matter of "courage"--as if the central reason the middle-class and the poor aren't rich is because they aren't courageous enough! (never mind the complex social, economic, and cultural ills that contribute to poverty). Orman is nothing more than a peddlar of snake oil. She may be a wealthy woman, but she's totally shallow one too, devoid of any moral sense and true courage. What lasting and meaningful contribution has she made to humanity?? Thanks to pariahs like Orman, the United States is quickly becoming an oligarchy--the poor be damned.
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Summary: Effective and Informative- Save on the commissions!
Review: Ms. Orman's book is effective because it attracts the intended audience- those that have avoided financial accountability. It does not provide a lot of new information, but this is true of 99% of financial advice (that is not pushing speculative and risky fads). The trick is to get people to follow through. Ms. Orman is good at this because she does not talk over her audience's heads. I don't know if Ms. Orman has a finance degree, but many financial advisors & investment bankers (if not most) don't have finance degrees. I know for a fact (with my finance background) that it is not required. What she does have is a great deal of practical and successful experience. This is what makes her effective in teaching AND convincing others to deal with their financial lives. Like any successful investment banker she is a good salesman and marketer. Save on the commissions and buy the book!
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Summary: Orman is the best financial planner I've ever encountered.
Review: What I love about The Courage to Be Rich is that it provides clear, brilliant budgeting, investing and financial planning advice with terrific empathy for the average schmo (like me) who is reluctant to deal with money (even when I actually have some to deal with). Like Suze's other books, this one patiently urges me to do what's obviously in my best interest and convincingly explains why I might find that hard to do.It offers very smart, imaginative solutions to common financial quandries (getting out of credit card debt, retirement planning, issues of marriage and divorce) and really motivates me to act on them. Favorite insight: Thoughts create words, words actions, actions habits, habit character, character destiny; so how we think about money is very important. Second favorite insight: The natural order of things is to value love first, then money, and only then the things that money buys. This is an excellent book.
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Summary: This book is rich with courage, information and support!!
Review: Having read The Nine Steps, we are finding this book helpful on a deeper level. With Suze's advice, we erased our $50,000 credit card debt in a little over a year. This book takes us to the next level. Some people have laughed at the title of this book--sure, who wouldn't want to be rich?? But this book, shows us that it's not that simple. Thank you to Suze Orman for shining a light on the hidden fears we have about money. This book is enRICHing our lives!!!!
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Summary: This book is her best one yet!
Review: Suze Orman has done it again, only better! This book has a more personal touch, with financial disaster (and success) stories that I could really relate to as a career woman in serious credit card debt. Getting rid of the clutter in your life, depositing that loose change and making money from the junk that you don't need any more is a nice, way to begin the process of re-organizing your financial life. It gives you hope that you can get through the rest of your problems, that apparently begin in utero. Thank you, Suze, for cheering us on and giving us good, practical advice to start the process of financial renewal.
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