"The Pledge is an actionalbe guide to reinvent your life by using a proven plan for success. Author Michael Masterson discusses how you can determine what you personally see as an "abundant life." Once you identify what matters to them, you can immediately set out to achieve abundance, whether in money, career, or your personal life. He offers practice and simple tips to make immediate changes and also to establish long term goals. He offers strategies on becoming more productive at the office, changing work habits, using mentors, avoiding pitfalls on the road to success, defeating depression and thinking like a billionaire. Masterson believes that by simplifying your goals into four major ones, you will make it four hundred times easier to pursue and achieve them. Using a personal master plan will put you on a new trajectory. Before long, you'll be amazed at how much you are accomplishing. Finally, you will be doing (and actually finishing!) projects that you have been dreaming about for years. As you knock off one objective after the next, you will feel your confidence growing, your skills strengthening, your wealth building, and your enjoyment of life increasing."--

A strategy for changing attitudes about personal finances covers such topics as getting out of debt, the dangers of cash advances, and keeping spending within income limits.

The best-selling author of Smart Women Finish Rich introduces a nine-step program to help couples overcome and prevent financial problems, examining the unique challenges of joint-finance ventures and explaining how couples of all ages and tax brackets can build a secure financial future. Reprint.

Addresses personal finance issues that are of relevance to today's world of high debt and disproportionate lifestyles, addressing such topics as credit cards, student loans, credit scores, insurance, and mortgages.

In this Freakonomics-esque book, the Head of Business Research at Oxford Economics reveals what it really takes to make a fortune through the stories of the superwealthy, from the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's banker and tech billionaires. 35,000 first printing.

Provides financial advice that speaks the language and answers the questions of the generation just starting out on the road to financial responsibility. Reissue.

An easy-to-understand tutorial on the basics of personal finance takes readers step by step through the essentials of money management, banking, investment, insurance, financial planning, taxes, and more. Original. 60,000 first printing.

A preeminent retirement and aging expert offers a revolutionary guide to second and even third acts for aging generations are are single, divorced, childless or who live long distance from family.What You'll Learn From This Book:• A life-planning checklist for Solo Agers• Stories of other Solo Agers successfully meeting retirement and aging challenges • Guidelines for developing a strong social network and avoiding isolation and loneliness • Specific ways to achieve financial security, including making an income in later life• Tips for maintaining good health and physical well-being throughout life• A formula for deciding where to live in retirement and later life• A tool for evaluating housing options • Obstacles to aging-in-place and checklist for home modifications• A comprehensive guide for advance planning – legal, financial, and personal

A revised edition of the popular guide covers the latest tax laws and features a humorous, reader-friendly design, in a volume that includes coverage of stocks, Internet investing, and tuition and retirement savings. By the author of My Vast Fortune. Original. 100,000 first printing.

A collection of more than two dozen business success stories discusses how the principles from Rich Dad Poor Dad can be effectively applied, citing numerous individuals from all walks of life who changed their financial outlook through strategic investments. Original.