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Summary: Support for Overcoming Your Stalled Thinking About Money
Review: THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU if you are NOT confident about money, havemoney problems, or have bad feelings about your relationship tomoney. On the other hand, if you have lots of money and feel goodabout what you are doing, you will hate this book. This is a self-help guide more along the lines of UNLEASH THE POWER WITHIN than it is a financial guide. I appreciate the care and consideration Ms. Orman shows to her readers who may be suffering from emotional overwhelm (such as often occurs during a divorce, after a loved one dies, or while buying a first home). Her lists will probably help such people. Although money has a lot to do with math, Ms. Orman correctly perceives that it is all about emotion as well. Emotion and math do not mix well, and she provides many useful insights into how to make them work better together. A psychological counselor she is not, however. I suspect this book would have been better with two co-authors, one who is an expert on emotions about money and the other who is an expert on money. Ms. Orman is neither, so the treatment is pretty lightweight. But if it gets you started in dealing with your issues, all the better for you. The only part that seemed really inadequate was her writing off of tax issues: You will spend a lot of money on taxes in your life and your choices do have a large impact on how much you will spend. Her advice is to feel good about paying more taxes because your income is higher. By contrast, someone who really wants to be rich needs to compound as much money tax-free or tax-deferred as possible. This book does not begin to address that subject. THE COURAGE TO BE RICH is the better book for dealing with specific life traumas such as divorce, death, and so forth. This book would be a good gift to a friend who has such an event in his or her life. Her stories are good, because they bring home the message of how crippling emotion can be so we take the problem more seriously. I think the biggest misconception stall people have about money is that they do not need to address their feelings about money. In that sense, Ms. Orman is doing a lot for us by reminding us that we have deeply held beliefs and attitudes that deserve being reexamined from time to time. I enjoyed reading the book, although it only added to my knowledge through the stories she shared. Maybe the book's appeal for general audiences can best be understood by thinking about the experience of watching a tear-jerker of a movie or television show -- you get a great feeling from knowing that the cataclysm is not happening to you. END
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Summary: Uninformed book and author
Review: The advice is this book will only make one person rich--Suze. Book readers are just being taken in with this claptrap.
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Summary: WASTE of TIME and MONEY
Review: P.T. Barnum was right: It's impossible to underestimate what Americans will waste their money on. SUZE BRAGS THAT SHE HAS MADE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from this and other books and tapes. She is making this money from struggling people (mostly women) who are trying against tough odds to somehow take charge of their finances. Ms. Orman should be ashamed of herself for exploiting these people for her personal gain! Forbes magazines exposed her more than a year ago for the phony and imposter that she really is.
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Summary: Very good book Suze!
Review: I have been a fan of mind books since 1983 when a very successful person recommended them to me. I read Think and Grow Rich, Richest Man In Bablyon and others.It's about time somebody tells it as it is---that what holds most of us back financially is that grey matter between our ears!Although some of what is in this book has been covered i Suze earlier books, still a great read.I also highly suggest Financial Self Defense and More Wealth wihout Risk by Charles Givens.
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Summary: Get a clue, Suze
Review: The only person who is getting rich because of this book is Suze Orman. Her tone is condescending, and her advice is patently un-helpful. If you are young and want to learn about investing & how to make smart money decisions, I recommend "Get a Financial Life" by Beth Kobliner. The bottom line is that you should make decisions about your money based on sound information, not a bunch of psycho-babble.
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Summary: Lessons on Abundance
Review: In THE COURAGE TO BE RICH, Suze Orman reminds us just how spiritual our relationship to money is. She reminds us how our past views impose upon present realities determining our ability to open ourselves to more abundance or the lack thereof. Thanks, Suze, for writing a book that is both practical in its applications and revelational in the way our soul manifests material reality from the infinite correlations we place our attention upon. -- Samuel Oliver, author of, WHAT THE DYING TEACH US: LESSONS ON LIVING.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This is an excellent way to start cleaning up your financial life and feel more secure about your future. She gives you the power and knowledge to take charge of your life and put a stop to the financial worries. She has helped my family immensley! We are saving and investing thousands as a result and we are clutter and worry free for the first time--it feels great!
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Summary: A must read for the new Millenium.
Review: I read Ms. Orman's book while my husband and I were in the process of buying our first home. There were many things I found helpful while going thru a rather bewildering process. Admittedly, I am a self-help junkie, but this book was extremely readable. Very informative and the self-analysis questions kept it from being dry. It will help trace your first concepts of money (very interesting). I will be gifting several of my friends with this book. Also a great reference guide.
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Summary: Useful advice, but overzealous philosophically
Review: Orman provides very helpful and easy-to-understand financial advice. Her theme about financial courage, however, is overly dramatic. She makes her point within a few pages, then proceeds to pound it into your head for the remainder of the book. While not everyone will find all parts of this book useful (ie. divorce, bankruptcy), everyone should be able to find something that will help them make sensible and rewarding financial decisions.
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Summary: Better Yet
Review: Suze Orzman has a few valuable lessons to teach, but sends mixed messages. I found a much more readable, deeper (yet practical), healthier, and consistent approach in The Mindful Money Guide. The author of The Mindful Money Guide is a former stockbroker who retired at a young age and then spent the next 15 years honing the art and balance of managing money--so it doesn't manage you. The Mindful Money Guide shows you how to simplify your money life, but it doesn't pretend there are easy answers. Despite the serious sounding title, it's actually a fun read.
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