The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need

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Summary: I've saved $ already!
Review: Enjoyable, easy to read book. Great investment, tax and cost saving tips. Useful examples, both good (profits) and bad (losses) taken from experience. Lots of historical facts about stock market history. Well worth the price. I don't feel the book is the only book you'll ever need. Took about 6 to 8 hours to read.

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Summary: The title of this book lives up to the name
Review: I have read too many books about investments and the stock market. "The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need" has all the ideas I read in all books together, and more. The book has very useful investment tips, including tax strategies, IRA, life insurence, and more. However, don't buy this book first if you know nothing about the stock market. I recommend "How to Buy Stocks" by Louis Engel as a first step in learning the stock market terminologies and how it works. Then, read this book by Tobias. I beleive those two books are good enough for any first time investor

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Summary: The title's exaggerating, but not by much!
Review: In my mind, there are two contenders for Best Personal Finance Book -- Jane Bryant Quinn's "Making the Most of Your Money" and this book. Both are well-written by the two biggest names in consumer finance. But Quinn is encyclopedic and tends to explain everything to exhaustion. Tobias, on the other hand, has mastered the art of the clear, short sentence. Get Tobias' book to start yourself off, and when your net worth gets really impressive (and it will, if you follow his advice), you can graduate to Quinn later.

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Summary: ONE STOP SHOPPING FOR FINANCIAL ADVISE
Review: This book is always fresh, valuable and insightful: Partly because Andy Tobias updates the book whenever new technology or financial instruments appear that require serious consideration, and partly because he uses his own advice, and has done quite well. Mr. Tobias believes that each of us can control our future to become wealthier. He also believes that it is important to keep it simple. The joy of this book is that you can do all of your financial "cooking " with one reference. He covers stocks, real estate, IRAs, and a myriad of other investments. He is also humorous, fun and easy to read. He encourages us to invest ourselves, not to be "stalled" by thinking that professionals can always do better, or investing is too complicated, or you can never make real money anyway. To read more about these bad-thinking habits that hold you back and how to overcome them, you should read a new book by Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles and Robert Metz called The 2,000 Percent Solution. You can get rid of your stalls to succeed way beyond your expectations. To succeed in investing, let Andy Tobias help you with The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need.

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Summary: An investment classic, and I don't use the word lightly.
Review: Tobias is, by quite a large margin, the personal finance writer who is most fun to read. His conversational and funny prose goes by so breezily that the reader almost doesn't notice that there's a ton of advice packed into it. Tobias also recognizes that personal finance is just that -- personal. Sample from the section on money-saving tips: "You will never find me eating a ketchup other than Heinz. But is it really worth 80 percent more to you to sneeze into a genuine Kleenex-brand 'kleenex'?" Not only is the thinking right on, but how 'bout that "eating a ketchup" -- touche! He's the best, a national treasure.

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Summary: The best $13 you'll spend!!
Review: I am a CPA and a CFP. I routinely recommend this book to people who are a bit uncertain about handling their personal finances as a "user friendly" resource that will be visited time and time again. Mr. Tobias has done everyone a great service. His writing style is most entertaining and makes the book a "quick read". However, don't be fooled; this one is a keeper.

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Summary: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Review: Andrew Tobias has written an excellent sequel to a financial classic that should be read by everyone interested in making the most out of their money. Easy to read (I read this book o a trip from Orlando to the west coast) It's not, however, "The only financial book you'll ever need", although a very good one. I also highly recommend "Personal Finance For Dummies", 'More Wealth Without Risk" and "Financial Self-Defense" by Charles Givens.

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Summary: VERY PRACTICAL--FUN TO READ
Review: I read this book on a recent plane trip from Orlando. Very practical & informative. Sorta of like "A Random Walk Down Wallstreet" only for per- sonal finance. The only downside is that it leaves the reader wondering; "now what am I supposed to do" As a followup to this excellent work by Tobias, Ihighly recommend "Wealth Without Risk" and "Financial Self Defense" by Charles J. Givens. The later two mentioned books will provide any serious reader with the "how" and are also very easy to read.

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Summary: It's great. Read it.
Review: I happened to pick this one up at an airport book store. I don't read books very often, but I finished this one in a few days because it was so interesting. The anecdotes and stories alone are worth your time. The only negative is that when you are done, you will likely still not know exactly what to do. That's part of his purpose I think, to show you that "not being certain" is normal and that anybody who says otherwise is probably trying to sell you something.

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Summary: The truth will set you free (and save you bucks)
Review: If you want the bare facts, the bottom lines, the who's who in the investing world, then this is the book for you. Although this book implies certain amount of knowledge on investing terminology (but not too much), Tobias presents a book that is very easy to follow. Highly recommended.