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3.82 AVERAGE
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This book was great! It gives you a bunch of great maxims to live by in order to grow your wealth.
While it doesn't provide a ton of actionable steps (invest in index funds instead of individual stocks), it does provide a great many actionable principles (keep one tenth of every dollar you make) although it doesn't suggest how you might structure that in terms of bank accounts.
This is both a weakness and a strength of the book. Strength because it provides the most basic of principles, with supporting stories/allegories/parables, all of which are timeless. This book will be just as applicable in 150 years as it is today. Period. However, it's a weakness because it does not provide information on how someone might actually enact the principles expounded in the book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks that money is hard or that books about money are boring or dry. This book proves that it's really simple to grow your wealth. However, if you are like I was several months ago, where you have the broad strokes of the principles but you need to figure out how to manage your spending, then this book is probably not for you. You would almost certainly be better served by reading "Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey, or listening to the Listen Money Matters podcast (or a wide variety of other resources).
While it doesn't provide a ton of actionable steps (invest in index funds instead of individual stocks), it does provide a great many actionable principles (keep one tenth of every dollar you make) although it doesn't suggest how you might structure that in terms of bank accounts.
This is both a weakness and a strength of the book. Strength because it provides the most basic of principles, with supporting stories/allegories/parables, all of which are timeless. This book will be just as applicable in 150 years as it is today. Period. However, it's a weakness because it does not provide information on how someone might actually enact the principles expounded in the book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who thinks that money is hard or that books about money are boring or dry. This book proves that it's really simple to grow your wealth. However, if you are like I was several months ago, where you have the broad strokes of the principles but you need to figure out how to manage your spending, then this book is probably not for you. You would almost certainly be better served by reading "Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey, or listening to the Listen Money Matters podcast (or a wide variety of other resources).
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Good content. It's told as fables. The storytelling aspect helps the material stick better than a generic bulleted list, but the archaic language was a bit annoying. Worth reading. It's short.
It’s been many many years since I read this book. But I had my memory jogged by it on someone else’s list. This was a great book and I might need to reread again.
I know it was the best book I read over a couple years.
I know it was the best book I read over a couple years.
Books like these are inevitable as there is more money to be made. The gist? Work harder. Save wiser. Never let your life be lived in complication. Everything was either 1) simplified or 2) oversimplified. If you can read or buy another book about saving money, get something that has more meat to it—the one that doesn't sound redundant.
Despite its age, the advice here is pretty timeless.
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“The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded. "
This book was amazing! Im flabbergasted how much wisdom is in such an old book.
I really enjoyed that the wisdom was packed in a historical fiction. That way it was really easy fot the writer to explain how complex things work, and was very fast to read!
I'm planning to take into consideration the advice that's in here which is so abundant. I was already interested in financial planning and a lot confirmed of my strategy but I think I also took away a lot of new stuff I'm willing to try.
This book was amazing! Im flabbergasted how much wisdom is in such an old book.
I really enjoyed that the wisdom was packed in a historical fiction. That way it was really easy fot the writer to explain how complex things work, and was very fast to read!
I'm planning to take into consideration the advice that's in here which is so abundant. I was already interested in financial planning and a lot confirmed of my strategy but I think I also took away a lot of new stuff I'm willing to try.
Insightful and thought provoking book. Very practical tools for being financially stable and responsible
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