Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #204127 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-15
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
When Suze Orman was 13 she watched her father dive into the flames of his burning take-out chicken shack in order to rescue his cash register. In that moment Orman learned that money was more important than life itself. And so it became her quest to be rich. But years later, when Orman became a wealthy broker with a huge investment firm, she was profoundly unhappy. What went wrong? She had not yet achieved financial freedom. In her nine-step program, Orman covers the ingredients to financial success--confronting our beliefs and fears, learning the nuts and bolts (and insiders secrets!) of savvy management, and finding the spiritual trust that leads to abundance.

Synopsis
The best-selling author of The Courage to Be Rich offers an updated new guide to financial success that shows readers how to obtain control over their money through changing their spending habits; how to understand investments, retirement, insurance, and credit; and how to gain true financial freedom. Original. 100,000 first printing.

Customer Reviews

Some Interesting Thoughts On What Money Means to YOU.
The first steps in the book are definitely worth reading. This centres on looking at ones early experiences of money and attendant fears surrounding it. Whatever illogical and archaic beliefs you currently hold stem from messages received during childhood. These are probably long overdue a complete overhaul. As other reviewers note much of the more detailed information is only relevant to the U.S. However the book is still worth reading.

Correcting Costly False Beliefs!
My friends who are financial planners tell me that they never meet anyone who does not know the right answer about what they should be doing with their money, but yet no one of these people acts on what they know.

The author, financial planner Ms. Suze Orman, seems to be reflecting this perspective as she asks a series of probing questions about what your mental associations to money are. These questions are designed to help you free yourself from harmful associations that may be sabotaging your current thinking. For example, some people associate having money with loss of love (such as through seeing their parents divorce after one parent became much more financially successful).

If you find yourself not acting on what you know that you need to do, you should buy, read, and change your thinking based on the questions in this book. This will be a five star book for you.

If you already think you know lots about money and always do more or less the right thing, you need a different book (one that focuses on advanced techniques that you do not already know). This book will be a one star book for you, and I suggest that you avoid it.

If you have to choose between The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and The Courage to Be Rich (Ms. Orman's newest book), I would strongly advise you to read this one because it is a much better and more helpful book. You can read my comments on The Courage to Be Rich if you are interested.

In any case, if you have ideas about money that make you uncomfortable, this is a good book to start with. Then you can graduate to books that will teach you more about WHAT TO DO NEXT. I think that you will find Rich Dad, Poor Dad to be very helpful.

Have fun and be more comfortable! This can be a 2,000 percent solution for you (getting 20 times the results you get now -- since almost all investors do much more poorly than the S&P 500 over any 10 year period of time). In fact, did you know that an estimated 80 percent of day traders lose money? Did you know that 95 percent of commodities traders lose money? There must be some pretty powerful false beliefs that cause people to undergo so much turmoil to befcome poorer.

If you want to learn about the stock market, start with John Bogle's Common Sense on Mutual Funds.

Not very useful to Europeans !
An interesting book about planning out a life long strategy for handling and accumulating money. The only problem with this book is that most of the techniques discussed are applicable only in the USA because of the system of tax breaks on pensions and savings schemes. We Europeans would find very little of use in this book .