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Summary: Financial Counseling in a Package
Review: After reading this financial primer, I felt as if I had been counseled by a financial consultant. Suze Orman goes beyond giving tips for managing money; this book takes you on a journey from past to present and beyond to conquer your fears and misgivings about money. She encourages us to capture a money memory from our past that has changed our perceptions about spending, and to move beyond them. Ms. Orman teaches us that money is a living thing, to be nurtured and respected so it can grow-- what a practical and profound insight! From credit card management to investing, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom leads you through this discovery one step at a time. If you only read one book on how to organize your finances, this is it.
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Summary: Helped me more than anything
Review: As a single woman, I've always been worried about money and not having enough. Her mantra (something like "I have all the money I need. I save money every month. The universe is abundant...") has helped me to breathe and be relaxed. I've read several other books on money and finances, and this has been the most helpful to me personally. I like how she gives us the freedom to do what WE feel comfortable with, even if it means putting our money in a savings account earning 2% interest. It helped me tremendously and I recommend it to all women.
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Summary: Helpful
Review: I got this book as a gift. As a college student it made me realize how I can pay off my current debts and save for the future. Though some of the advice is trivial, it was a good read.
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Summary: Utterly Ridiculous!!
Review: And the writing is juvenile. If there's anything to reincarnation Suze ought to be worried after bilking money from so many people.
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: Suze is the Dr. Laura of money. She's got no training in her field of supposed expertise. Total hypocrite. Her writing is childish and her advice is nonsense. Buy at your own peril. If you want solid money advice check out 2 other books - Jane Bryant Quinn's "Making the Most of Your Money" or "Kiplinger's Practical Guide To Your Money." Suze's book is only useful as an overpriced doorstop.
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Summary: This book has change my future!
Review: I'm a middle age, single with no kids, freelance proffessional and I have been worried about my future with a limited retirement plan and medical insurance, no savings and still paying mortgage. I haven't finish reading the book yet, I not even have completed the exercises the book recommend, but following some of the steps the book develop I have already several hundreds dollars in a saving account, have acquire a new medical insurance with a better coverage and a life insurance that is also a retirement plan. But most important, I already feel free and secure about my financial future.The book is easy to read, and the exercises are truly eye-openers. It also explain the different way to assure your money in the present and the future and gives useful information about legal matters related to the ways of doing so. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who really wants to learn how to manage the money that so hard has earn!! Thank you very much Suze, I truly love you!!!
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Summary: just a little caveat ....
Review: I would just like to offer a word or two of caution regarding this woman's disingenuous style; if you take her information and use it to stabilize or indeed improve your finacial status, I can guarantee you that you would have done so sooner or later under your own steam - at best she is a catalyst to action you were on the edge of taking anyway. Other than that, please be careful; beguiled by Orman's breezy style (veering on the sanctimonious and smug as it often is), a dear friend of mine tried to follow what were, for him, quite inappropriate steps espoused by Orman. He is now a bankrupt. And the trail of dismay and bewilderment leads DIRECTLY back to Orman. In other words, Orman (and what's with that "Suze"?) can be dangerous - she can put you into anxiety with no means of retrieving yourself, just as other Oprah-sanctified emotional health gurus put vulnerable people -nice, good people who deserve better- in direct touch with hurt and anger ("good" tv) without taking the hapless victims through closure to peace - because that cannot be done on a video, or at a seminar, or on a commercial-saturated show like Winfrey's. Orman is cut from the same cloth - there's real greed here - it drips out of Orman behind the ingratiating rictus of her smile, and it's wrapped in the soothing rhetoric of "self-help". Again - BE CAREFUL.
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Summary: THIS BOOK TELLS US ABOUT OUR FINANCIAL LIVES
Review: Suze is a very down to earth writer. She tells us about her real life experiences. At one pont in Suzes' life she was on top of the world, but lost everything by being too trusting to her co-employees. After a lot of soul searching and hard work Suze has been able to turn her life around and become even more successful than before. Sometimes failure teaches us how to come back stronger than ever. I believe anyone who buys this book and lives by it's teaching will be far ahead of the game of making money. Suze maps out what it takes to excel in finances. I would like to ask everyone out there to let Suze perform her magic in your lives. In good faith in can honestly recommend this book. Please buy it! You have nothing to loose and everything to gain.
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Summary: It has everythong to do with how you make money
Review: As the author says you do deserve to do well. Well if you have something to say, say it, print it, publish it, e-mail it, make a profit from it. "It has nothing to do with how much money you have or how little, it is far more complex. Financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have but with when you have power over your fears and activities instead of other way around". What a great message she leaves to whom has the opportunity to hear it.
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Summary: Pretty good book. Very readable.
Review: This was overall a pretty good book. A lot of the information I've heard before, but I like the author's writing style. The advice is pretty standard: Pay off your credit cards, pay down your mortgage, invest for the long term. What I liked about this book is that it's readable. The examples make sense. It's easy to say "pay off your credit cards" but she shows in black and white just how much money credit cards are costing you. Her comparison of a 30 year mortgage to a 15 year mortgage was quite compelling. I had no idea how much difference paying a little extra each month toward a mortgage makes. It's a lot more than I thought. Can you become financially free reading this book? Yes, you can. But you have to follow the steps. You have to do it. Don't read this book and then put it away thinking it was great and wouldn't it be nice if I changed my lifestyle and habits. Do it. I have, and I can say it's worth it. I'm giving this book 4 stars. I'm not giving it 5 because I've read much of the information elsewhere. This isn't the first financial book ever written. I give it a high rating because it's very readable. It's not dull at all. I felt like the author was talking to me like a human being. It's worth buying. I highly recommend it. I also highly recommend "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. His book has some similar concepts, but I found it even more readable. His book is about acquiring income producing assets as opposed to just paying down debt and acquiring paper assets. Buy both books.
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