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Summary: Are you ready to talk about the R word
Review: What is being rich? Webster defines being rich in the following way "magnificently impressive". Wowl, what strong language. Based on this defination let's look at the various kinds of being rich. 1. there's material wealth 2.there's spiritual wealth 3. there's talent wealth 4.there's tranquil wealth 5. there's happiness wealthAnyway you look at it, being rich requires a lot from you. To walk in the pathway of richness, you must be willing to march to a different drum beat. You will have a lot required of you in return for you riches. You will need to a model for the world to follow. You will need to put yourself at a lower level than the call of your riches. As you know, the life of a wealthy person doesn't belong to that person, but to the world around that person. You more of less are forced to become a humanitarian. You must give up a big part of your life to the requirements that the life of wealth demands. There's an old saying that goes like this "much is expect from those who have riches". I find that this book has greatly helped me in all areas of being rich. It has steered me in the the right direction to where I can have the right frame of mind to manage my riches. It has shown me how to accumilate more riches than I already have. It has surely helped me have the COURAGE TO BE RICH I WOULD LIKE TO STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK
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Summary: OPPOSITE OF HELPFUL
Review: That's right. I followed some of the advice in this book and it got me deeper in debt and invested in some mutual funds that I later discovered were totally wrong for me. In desperation, I finally called a nonprofit credit counseling service and they negotiated with my creditors and got my monthly payments reduced by $89 and even got two credit card companies to remove $372 in late charges and finance charges. The counselor did it free of charge and got me real help. This book just spewed useless feel-good slogans.
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Summary: Trust Yourself, NOT This Absurd Book
Review: Stupid. Goofy. Useless advice that isn't worth the paper it's written on. Use your money for better purposes than this dreadful book.
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Summary: Big Con Job!
Review: What a waste of money. My bridge club bought copies of this book because we were told it was a good investment and would help us take charge of our money. We tried the so-called advice and it did NOT work. We finally had a garage sale and unloaded our copies of this book for $1 each. The person who bought it is using them as doorstops! Forbes Magazine exposed her in their magazine. Read about the "real" Suze and how she's lied about her background and even how she lost the lawsuits she claimed that she won. Why take advice from her?
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Summary: RIP-OFF
Review: My bridge club and I bought copies of this book and Suze's tapes because of all the testimonials from people who swore it worked for them. Well, these "believers" who claimed that Suze was onto something of financial value must all be on Suze's payroll. This absurd advice is so trivial and in many cases not even accurate that unless you're a total money moron it won't show you anything you haven't heard or read elsewhere. Many women's web sites give far better advice that you can actually use. Suze is the queen of infomercials so why doesn't she offer a money back guarantee? We would have been far better off using the money we spent on her books and tapes to pay off our credit card debts.
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Summary: Where's the system?
Review: Although there are some good ideas in this book, it fails to give us a system we can all use to rich the top. I would suggest a great book which gives you a simple system by which everyone can reach the top. It is "I'm Rich Beyond My Wildest Dreams. I am. I am. I am." by Thomas L. Pauley and Penelope J. Pauley
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Summary: HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF BEING RICH, WELL THERES MORE
Review: Everybody thinks that being rich will solve all your problems, but that's not the whole story. It's one thing to be rich, but another thing to hold on to what you have. You see, one could give a million dollars to a poor person and in no time they could become poor again. You ask why is this? The answer is this, if you don't know how to handle money, it will leave you in a hurry. To have money and be able to hold it takes some kind of training about money and how it works. I think to be rich you need to learn self discipline and not to have a lot of wants as far as material goods go. It's always best to spend your money in moderation. That way you should never be broke. Another thing that's important to know is that you are to rule your money, and not let it rule you. You should repect your money. but not worship it. To be rich requires a lot of concern, for you have a lot riding on your every decision about it. You need to be able to always think clearly about your money and what you need to do with it. I think this book will help prepare you for how to live the life of being rich. It really is a full time job. I hope you will like to work?
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Summary: Over-rated and Vanilla!
Review: Not only have I read this title but I have caught Suze Orman on several different TV arenas. This is another cure all hype that suggest anyone can do it? Please if that were the case everyone would be rich! Having some experience in both real estate and the market, I found very little new information here. She has passion on her topic and for that I feel she genuinely believes in her words, however, there is no single magic pill or book that cures all. To market this title to the masses as a cure all from financial pitfalls seems to take away from some of its strong points. There are a few areas that will trigger thought and possibly for the reader to look at their own portfolio.
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Summary: Too individualistic, ignores context
Review: I enjoyed this book at first, when I was more steeped in new-age thought (and less aware of how factors like race, class, and gender influence day-to-day choices), but the more I learned about labor unions, politics, social change and economics, the less I liked it. I can't recommend it for several reasons. Orman presents her formula for getting rich as a new age platitude, almost entirely divorced from the socio-political context and the economy in general. Although there is some good practical information here, and it's true that many of us have troubles with money that are related to our beliefs about wealth, I think Orman does her readers a disservice by reducing things to the level of the individual. (It's a typically American way to do things, I'm sorry to say). It's as if Orman is saying "So you're not rich? Well, it ultimately comes down to your own individual courage and attitude. If you change that, money will flow into your life." That may be true for some of us (especially if you're white and middle class), but what about the rest? Does Orman realize that the gap between the rich and the poor is the widest it's ever been in history, and that the top 1 percent of households has more wealth than the entire bottom 95 percent COMBINED? (See the "United for a Fair Economy" web site if you want to find out more on this). Doesn't this sort of thing suggest to you that individuals having trouble achieving prosperity may have larger problems than just their own attitudes? It's a fallacy that people act independently from the surrounding socio-political environment. The environment has as much influence on them as their own beliefs. But Orman fails to acknowledge this. I think this book sells so well because people very badly WANT to believe it's as simple as just adjusting your attitude. Wouldn't that be nice? If it's just us as individuals, then we don't need to face the necessity of taking action for social change. (That would be scary, but much more empowering in the long run). Don't get me wrong--I DO think that attitudes are important to a certain extent--but I think this book does more harm than good. By avoiding questions of politics, Orman (perhaps unwittingly) contributes to political apathy, especially among the middle class. She presents nothing that would inspire people to collective action for a fair economy or improving their financial situation outside of a narrow individualistic context. Instead, she reduces it all to whether or not you have the "courage" to be rich. Frankly, I am not impressed.
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Summary: awsome perspective for the non financially intuative
Review: Suzi has some incredible talent for shining her commnon sense spotlight on bad habits many of us have with money. While many of the hundreds of examples of waste of money appear to be no-brainers, we do them anyway. The reader will have the choice whether the shoe fits and Suzi offers many useful tools to counter current habits that we all have. The level of detail and clarity in explaining financial vehicles is also excellent. If you don't care about a topic such as a prenuptial agreement, or life insurance, just hit the forward button and go on to the next topic. Maybe someday you will have a need for it.
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