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Summary: This book is nothing but a garbage, and wastage of money
Review: I think, I should have bought 9 steps rather than this COURAGE TO BE RICH. The authors intention was to put stories from her clients as many as she can to increase the size of the book. It is a total wastage of money and I regret to buy this book. I wish I could return that and buy 9 steps. I should not recommend anyone to buy this book. Regards, Tipu
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: The Courage to be Rich should be called the courage to steal. It is a complete waste of the readers time and money. If You must read something by Suze Orman read "You've earned it,Don't lose it".
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Summary: A disappointment.
Review: A friend of mine introduced me to the Orman books. I read 9 Steps to Financial Freeddom first and loved it. So I was very open to the new book Courage to Be Rich. What a disappointment! It starts out as a "psychology of money" book and continues on w/ anecdotes about various people's experiences. This book is best suited for people who are wary of taking control of their money; people who need help getting started to look at the numbers. For those who are aware, have taken the plunge into investing, are paying down on debt, this book won't help the way 9 Steps to Financial Freedom did. I'd say read it at the library or buy one copy for the office and share it. But don't buy it for yourself. Put your money to better use.
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Summary: The Courage to Take your Head Out of the Sand.
Review: I saw this video when it appeared during a PBS Fund Drive. I found Ms. Orman's advice to be practical and inspiring. Although at first blush it seemed a bit "New Ageish", after seeing it a second time, I realized that she was merely tying to demonstrate how our emotions are connected to our spending habits. Basically, she recommends good self-esteem and common sense! I can't wait to buy it.
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Summary: BORING BORING BORING
Review: Well folks I don't know which is more boring Suze's long-winded response to customer comments or her book. I am happy that I bought this book because it will save me thousands of dollars in sleep aids in the years to come. zzzzzzzzzz Sleep well my friends.
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Summary: An excellent reference for FREEDOM!
Review: This book allows the reader to become empowered with the knowledge/courage to make life changes that set you free. Suze shows you how step by step and right from the very beginning it makes sense! I recommend this book to everyone and I give it as a gift.
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Summary: This book should be in everyone's library!
Review: This book has helped me get my financial priorities straight. Thank God for Suze Orman. I encourage everyone to read this book. After all, not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouths, but we surely can get that silver spoon.
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Summary: My thoughts about my books
Review: I have received lots of letters lately asking me to explain the differences among my three books, some from readers seeking specific advice (which book talks about Roth IRAs, for instance), and others from other readers wondering if there¹s a specific order in which the books should be read--or whether reading one of the books is enough. These letters have gotten me thinking, and I¹ve begun to realize just how much I¹ve grown and changed since my first book was written. Over the past few years, I¹ve spent much of my time on the road, talking to people, hearing their stories (and worries and fears) about money, learning more, I suppose, about the ways in which we interact with our money--or don¹t, and the rewards and blessings we can bestow upon ourselves by turning toward our money, and saying yes to the possibilities of what it can do for us--if we let it, and if we help it along. In other words, I think I myself have grown over these years, and I believe that my books have grown deeper as well. The stories I¹ve heard, and the lessons I¹ve learned, are the stories and lessons that inform all my books. Another way of saying this is that if I could have, I would have written my most recent book, THE COURAGE TO BE RICH, first--if I had known then what I know now. So many people ask me why it takes courage to be rich, and my answer is that it takes courage to face anything we are afraid to do--and there is nothing in life that most of us are more afraid to face than our money. And what do I mean by rich? Richness of the kind that infuses this book has far more to do than with just money, for I know many people who have lots of money but they are anything but rich; rich means living a life that is generous and expansive in all ways, not just financially. I would be the last person in the world to tell you that money alone would ever make you happy, but I would be the first to tell you that lack of money sure can make you miserable. THE COURAGE TO BE RICH invites you, quite simply, to make the best choices with the money you have, in order that you will be able to create the money you want. This is the book that, in retrospect, I wish I had written first, and the book I would read first. COURAGE is about money, day to day, the money we spend and how we spend it, the money we save, the best ways to use our money to buy what we need, from cars to houses to your morning cup of coffee. It asks you to think today about the money you need tomorrow. It talks about how to live a ³rich² life when sustaining your relationships--marriage and money, transcending divorce, money and lifetime partnerships, money and your children, overcoming a death. It delves into some of the emotional barriers from your past that may be standing in the way of what you could achieve with your money today, and it asks you to forgive your past, as a means of financial healing. If you believe that your financial state dictates your emotional state, then I ask you to read this book, which argues the opposite, because I truly believe that it is your emotional state that dictates your ultimate financial state. If you are persuaded by this after reading this book, then you will have found the courage to be rich. THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM is the book I would read next. It came out in 1997, and I can¹t tell you how gratified I have been (and still am) by all the mail I¹ve received from readers who have found the book to a big help in their lives--financially, spiritually, and emotionally, for these are subjects that many readers encountered together here for the first time in their lives. And let me tell you, money, emotions, and spiritual queries are tied together in ways that, once you understand them, can really set you free financially. These nine steps were developed over eighteen years of dealing with my clients and realizing that there were logical reasons why people spent more money on their credit cards than they could afford. There were reasons why people were not saving for retirement, even though they knew that day was going to come, or why people did not have a will or a trust, even though we all know we¹re all going to die one day; it¹s just a question of when. This book came out of a seminar that I was giving for Avon Life Designs which cost $500 a day per person. I wanted to make this information available to more people at an affordable price; thus the book. It opens with an exercise I used in my seminar, asking you to go back to your past and recall a money memory, and links that memory to your greatest fears of money today. Next it suggests ways to break your ties to the past and to get on with living your life, both practically and financially. Financially, it covers, among other topics, trustx verses wills; long term care insurance, whole life insurance; durable power of attorney for health care; mutual funds; finding the right financial advisor; retirement plans; and getting out of credit card debt. Spiritually it addresses how to embrace your financial destiny--how to be financially free. YOU¹VE EARNED IT, DON¹T LOSE IT is a very quick read of the true stories of eight people who came to see me after it was too late. They had already made financial mistakes that had devastated them--mistakes that could have been avoided. There is nothing sadder than having to tell someone in their sixties, seventies, or eighties that there is nothing that can be done, and this is what I had to tell these people. I wrote this book so what happened to these people never happens to you. If you are about to retire this book is for you. I like to say about this book that will not teach you how to save for retirement, but it will literally save your retirement. If you can say with pure confidence that your financial emotions and financial affairs are in perfect order, that you are without financial fears or doubts, that you know all you need to know about your money, then please don¹t buy my books, and please accept my congratulations. Most of us aren¹t so lucky, nor so knowledgeable. If, on the other hand, the subject of your money has made you feel paralyzed or afraid, if worries about money punctuate your days and nights, if you simply don¹t know what to do with your money or can¹t make yourself do what you should do, then I ask you to turn toward my books as a way of turning toward your money, and changing course in your life--financially, emotionally, spiritually. It has become my mission to help as many people as I can enter the new millennium with what we need to know about our money in order to thrive, and with the emotional tools we need in order to take the actions we know we should take. If you haven¹t cared about your money before, I ask you to care about it now. I ask you to protect what you have, seek the financial freedom that I believe is available to us all, and to find the courage you need to do so. Respectfully,Suze Orman
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Summary: Suze Save the paper Will Ya!!
Review: What a joke. This book is nothing more than a laugh a minute, because of the misinformation. The correct facts and info need to be in an investment book so where are they? Save your money gang and Suze stop sounding like a broken record.
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Summary: Simply Too Simplistic
Review: I agree with the reviewer who recommended Robert Koppel's much better Money Talks:Candid Conversations About Wealth In America.Koppel provides a discussion of money that is thoughtful,interesting,well analyzed and real.
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