Personal-finance

Don't waste your valuable time with this one. When the suggestions are "Move to a state with lower death taxes" (#969), "don't let your kids watch Saturday morning cartoons" (448), and "recycle your knee-high socks into ankle-length by cutting them" (248), I would venture to guess that most people would not find these "tips" practical. One tip (489) even suggests to invite grandparents to visit often because they'll bring presents for your kids! Almost all of the good tips (there are a few) are common-sense ways to cut expenses like use coupons, buy off-season, etc. Just look at how many people are selling this book "used" to see how helpful it is.

This excellent book by Jonathan Pond will provide you with 1001 practical ways (that you won't find anywhere else) to reduce expences and to invest or expand your lifestyle.

Please ignore the 1 star reviews. If you haven't already figureed it out, they are all from the same JBQ shill.

I also recommend "The Courage To Be Rich", "The Laws of Money" and "9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman.

When I came across this book I was out of work and deeply in debt. Thanks to the tips in "101 ways" I found many ways to dig myself out of debt and into financial freedom.

Great book. Highly recommended.

This book serves as a great reference tool on a wide variety of topics. It has good references to agencies and practical advice on money, leisure, and relationships. A useful tool for people at any age over 55.

The thing I really like about this book is the system it uses to help you find the correct spelling of lots and lots of words. Arranged alphabetically are all the possible phonetic ways different words could be spelled with the correct spelling next to it. The incorrect spellings are in one font and the correct spellings are in another. There are also numerous explanations of the words, including sources, usages, and so on. These are very entertaining to read. I highly recommend this book.

When I was in high school, I and a few good friends made a pretty good hobby out of tormenting (in a good way, of course) one particular English teacher in our school.

One of my favorite tactics in this teacher's classroom was to blurt out, in mock consternation, "How do you spell ______?" whenever I couldn't spell a word. Why? Because a) I was young and immature and a legend in my own mind, and b) the teacher always fell right into my trap...

"Look it up in the dictionary!" he'd scream, without fail, pitching me a nice softball right over the plate ...

"But HOW," I whined, "am I supposed to look up a word when I can't spell it in the first place?!"

(GLARING SCOWL)

Problem was, I was only half-kidding with most of my questions (though I'd never admit as much to the teacher). Often it really WAS difficult (not to mention time-consuming) to look up the words I didn't know, especially if their spellings weren't very intuitive.

I guess that's why I'm enjoying my copy of "1,001 Commonly Misspelled Words." With this handy book, you don't need to know how to spell a word already before looking it up. You need only know how to pronounce it -- because you can then look it up phonetically. Why didn't someone think of this before?! Once you get to the word's phonetic spelling, you can then see the correct (though often counterintuitive!) spelling. Plus, you might get a little story about the word or, better yet, some sort of nemonic -- er, I mean mnemonic -- device so that you can remember how to spell it in the future.

I only wish the book included more words. But in any case, it's a nice tool -- especially for a writer type like me. I would think it might also make a good gift for new college students and others who will be tearing their spelling hair out from time to time in the years to come.

Highly recommended!

53 Pages... Go figure. I received a one page mailer from the publisher on this book referring me to Amazon and [another online site]. The mailer is printed in simple black and white text spead across the one page mailer. There is a 112 word description of the contents. I have not read it nor do I intend to. Credit card fraud? What about publishing fraud? [item price] for a 53 page book!

I am a young entrepreneur. I took an introductory business risk management class to better understand the environment, and to avoid or at least minimize possible business problems. I found this book very helpful. The language is simple & clear enough to understand as I didn't have any anti-fraud background. I will definitely keep this as reference. I recommend this book for anybody selling on internet.

This book answers the question, "What is the best way to protect from credit card fraud online?" The author found how swindlers penetrate different anti-fraud systems, both manual and automatic. Then he collected, filtered and studied tons of data on these "penetration methods" and determined the best way to protect from them. While the book is based on very in-depth research, it does not read like a research report. The author has done an excellent job at bridging the gap between first rate research and a mass market audience.

Strengths: The author's writing is very interesting and easy to read. The book is a quick read and many readers will finish it within a weekend. While based on lots of research, the book does not read like a boring textbook. The author's conclusions are delivered simply and concisely.

Weaknesses: Minor but: It may be hard for novice online sellers to fully understand this book.

Who should read this book: All managers, executives, and leaders of any type of organization that accept credit cards online, as well as those others interested in credit card fraud.

Also consider: Nothing. This is the only helpful book on this topic.

As others say elsewhere, a book for beginners. However, I have to say that even beginners are going to be mis-lead because the book states one thing and delivers another. The very 1st chapter states the easiest way to beat the market is the simplest and most passive. Buy index mutual funds. The advice is sound, however, what the author promises is not. The problem is this: In buying a index fund, you will never "beat the market". The best you will do is mirror the market and with mutual fund expenses, you will "hopefully" be close to market performance. This approach will NEVER be better than the market. It simply can't. I don't have an argument with the premise of buying index funds. However, the phrase "beat the market" means to do better than or out-perform it. The author apparently interprets this to mean, trail the market or come close to a tie and you beat the market.
Also in the same section, the author recommends further diversification by purchasing 2 or 3 index funds. Diversify your diversified funds? Redundant and ridiculous. Advice for "...people who don't know what they are doing." Warren Buffet
The one good part of this book is that each of the 100 sections starts with a great idea or quote. These I loved. However, of the sections I have read, not a one presents any idea or strategy for "beating the market".
Don't get me wrong, from what I have read, there are some good things to be found here. However, when the author fails to truthfully present or support the basic premise of the book, it makes the whole book suspect. Suggest the reader look elsewhere, (Search- 'Peter Lynch') and the author get a dictionary to look up the meaning of the words, 'beat' and 'mis-represent'.

The 100 ways are actually elaboration of 100 adages of diverse sources from JKF's "How could I have been so mistaken as to have trusted the experts?" to Pope John XXIII's "See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little".

Some sayings are interesting. Most are quite mediocre, like "Buy low, sell high" "In the long run, it's earnings growth that drives the stock."

I bet that most of the experienced investors or traders, who have read more than two trading books, will be disappointed by this one.

Investors have been getting stock-picking ideas from Gene Walden for much of the last decade. His expertise comes from many books and interviews with market geniuses. Walden has his finger on the pulse and it shows here, as he demonstrates how to put together both active and passive portfolios. He shows beginners how to pick your own stocks, and how to function successfully in today's market.

This guy is a genius. I don't know how he has time to write with all the money he has to count. At first I thought it was too good to be true but I was wrong. This is a guide for the 21st centur

I was very dissapointed with this book. I read the whole thing in a weekend only because I was hoping later chapters would have been worth the time and money I invested in this book. I did not learn anything new about finances and "HOW TO MAKE IT". I was hoping for tips and tricks on how to maximize my investments, retirement, and protect my estate from taxes. This is my first purchase of "Personal Finance" material and it was not a good choice. I hope I can return this book for another choice. Maybe I will wait for customer reviews before I purchase the next book on-line.

This book will inevitably be compared to the newer work, The Road to Wealth by Ms. Suze Orman. Ms. Glink's book has the edge in having a simpler, easier-to-use format which is supplemented by many helpful work sheets. In most other ways, Ms. Orman's book is better as well as having more up-to-date information. Ms. Orman's book has the greatest relative advantage in her section on credit cards.

Like The Road to Wealth, this book will be of most value to those in the 17-25 year-old age group. For most people past 50, this book is at best a two-star effort. You learned most of these things a number of years ago unless you have or had a spouse who kept you away from finances.

The best sections in the book are on buying or leasing a car or truck, buying insurance, determining your net worth, measuring the economic impact of having two incomes, and deciding how much to spend on a home.

I thought that the sections on setting financial goals and investing in stocks were very below par. Both give information and general guidance that miss the mark. Setting financial goals is a small section. That's the most important thing you can do, and there's not enough guidance here. In stock investing, the point is not made that you can outperform over 95 percent of all professional investors by simply buying inexpensive indexed mutual funds. Instead, you get details about all kinds of ways of investing that most people should never do. The advice on how to select professionals to help you was also substandard compared to what you need.

Ms. Glink also emphasizes writing down all of your expenditures to create more frugal habits. Very few people are going to do that. On the hand, she omits the important subject of how to develop your income through your career decisions and actions. I thought the advice was thus imbalanced and impractical. A better thing to do would be to encourage people to write down what they spend on discretionary items and services. Most people could and would do that, and the results would provide most of the benefit with only a small portion of the time investment.

Although most of Ms. Glink's questions are good ones, she occasionally gets caught up in trivia like what a stock split is.

In most of Ms. Glink's sections, the advice is much less detailed than you would get in a specialized book on that subject. So, if you plan to take action in most of these areas, you should probably seek out the top book on that subject. You will see that instantly if you compare this book to Ms. Glink's superb book on being a first-time home buyer, which I highly recommend over the home purchasing section in this book.

Integrate finances into the full fabric of your spiritual, family, and personal life in a way where each supports the others!

You work hard for your money, and spend it on life's necessities and frivolities. But do you know how to make your money work for you -- to manage it, keep more of it, make it grow and protect it so you can enjoy it? There's plenty of financial information available -- magazines, books, newspapers, radio, television and the Internet. There are hundreds of financial companies trying to sell you their products and services. The problem isn't finding enough information, it's finding too much.

I've checked out many books on basic financial advice and the "100 Questions You Should Ask About Your Personal Finances: And the Answers You Need to Help You Save, Invest, and Grow Your Money" by Ilyce Glink is one of the best of the bunch. For anyone looking for a readable, reliable guide to everything they want to know about their money, I'd say this is the book. And this solid book is a book of answers.