Money

This book has been a great step-by-step guide to getting financially organized. It's geared to average working-class folks, not aspiring accountants and brokers. The author's humorous approach makes the material accessible and interesting!

The book begins with steps to determine where your money goes, then works through ways to eliminate debt, plan for emergencies, and invest money for various purposes: retirement, college, and other large expenses. The book also includes advice for buying insurance and completing your taxes.

The book is a beginner's guide, not an exaustive reference -- so don't expect to find all the information you need if you want to invest in individual stocks or understand each line of your tax return. Rather, it gives clear advice to new investors through commonsense arguments that require almost no background information.

Only two complaints: First, health insurance is not discussed. Some advice on such an important kind of insurance would have been very helpful to me. Second, the authors repeatedly advertise their website. (To their credit, the website ...is a pretty good resource. You might want to try it before you get the book or even instead of the book. It has free trial membership as of this writing.)

06/10/03 I like this book so far. I love the way it's written it gets you in the good mood for financial planning. It has me excited about learning how to manage my money.

It does not make you feel like you are going to deal with a seroius & tedious issue. I look foward to doing this. I feel like this is going to be fun especially with the jokes. It sometimes catches you off guard.

So far I give it 5 stars I will come back & update this later...

I first discovered The New Yorker when I was a teenager. When I saw how many people subscribed to the magazine, I started asking people why they did. Inevitably, the answer was, "For the cartoons." Since then, I have come to realize that The New Yorker is like the hall of fame for cartoonists.

Now, subscriptions to The New Yorker are pretty expensive, so your cost per cartoon can be hefty. Buy this book, and slash your cost per cartoon while increasing your laughs per minute!

Seriously (no kidding), this volume is well done. It leads off with a very witty essay about money from Christopher Buckley of Forbes FYI who introduces some of the cartoons.

As well drawn as these 110 classic cartoons are, you'll find that many of them work as quips. "I married you for your money, Leonard. Where is it?"

The pursuit of money is always tinged with concern about what one is giving up to get it. "Well, anyhow, it sure is handy having my broker right here in my cell."

Money can be a distressing subject as well, too delicate for the dinner table. "Must you tell us our daily share of the national debt every time we sit down to dinner?"

Money is an important subject. One that often comes up in families at other times. "Your mother called to remind you to diversify," says secretary to the executive.

The dog's eye view is helpful also, as one pooch says to the other, "Let's face it -- man's best friend is money."

The challenges of having enough money can bring us all up short. Like the man addressing the bank teller said, "I'd like to bounce a check."

It's no wonder that money has been such a constant source of cartoons in The New Yorker. By putting many of the best ones in this fine book, you'll have a good cross section of the best New Yorker cartoons in recent years.

Have a good laugh! Then stop to think about what stalled thinking you may have about money. Then think about how you could change your beliefs about money to have a better life.

As a former business owner, I found that those without a sence of humor soon lost money.

Here is a book of cartoons that will help most everyone laugh, maybe even those on the way to their best tax haven (page 13),or those who want to discuss the portfolio losses with their broker (page 96). There is also some excellent advice to use when responding to those unwanted cold calls (page 46).

Yes, I do like cartoons. With this book you can become a very good "money person".

It is bound to bring many laughs, today, tomorrow and in much of the future!

Great Book! I could not agree with this more. I recieved this book from a friends mom who loved it and passed it on to me! I highly reccomend that people read this book!

okay, so i haven't actually read the book itself, but i have read some of the articles the book is a compilation of, and they were insightful glimpses into a world i know very little about: the 24 hour convenient store. if the book is truly anything like the articles, it will be worth reading.

You can (and probably should) read classic personal finance tomes such as "Get a Financial Life", "Debt-Free Before 30" but you can hardly apply the advice in these books till you've read "Our Money Ourselves" and figured out what is blocking you from saving and investing your cash -- it has little to do with the actual amount of cash you have!

Besides offering purchasing power, money is a symbol, a means to an end ... and those symbols and ends are different for everyone. "Our Money Ourselves" makes everyone, especially women, reexamine and redesign their attitudes and relationship with money in order to make wise decisions with it.

I have gotten more insight and more deep revelations with this book than any other. I've read Think and Grow Rich, The Richest Man in Babylon, Money 101, The Meaning of Money, Money and Spirituality, and of course 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and none have even approached digging out the deep root of self sabotoge than this book. 9 Steps has been great for the practical stuff. But OurMoney Ourselves unearths the hidden insects, bulbs and weedy roots that hinder a bountiful harvest. A must companion volume to 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and A Courage to be Rich (both by Suze Ohrman). If you can only get one, start with this book. It will prepare the soil for the seeds of 9 Steps to take root.

I connected with the words of Joline Godfrey. Her evaluation on what women are doing in business, helps all of us see the opportunities to do things differently. The first chapter where she talks about the right stuff struck home - women needing connection with others, seeing people as whole individuals, wanting balance in life, seeing business as a creative outlet, are all principles she dives into - they make sense for those seeking to more than financial goals. There are many bottom lines in life - the women business owners the book reviews get it and are designing business with a bigger picture in mind. Thank you Joline for shifting my thinking - I was already headed in that direction - your book help me get there a little faster.

This book was a life changer for me. My entire paradygm shifted about my own potential to be an entrepreneur after reading this book. It was instrumental in my decision to leave my public school teaching position and start my own business. I found the specific stories of women's successes and struggles encouraging. I had often given up on ideas once problems started to arise, but after reading this book, I adopted the mantra "Every problem has a solution." It has helped me through many a seemingly crisis situation. I have reread it several times. The most valuable piece for me was the perspective that we women can do something that we love, have fun AND make a living. My husband also enjoyed this book, so it's not just for women.

Easy to read in simple terms

The basics of financial planning are communicated in a way everyone can understand.

This book is an excellent source for the expansion of power and increase in your income and life. It has added wealth,prosperity, and abundance in my life. I have a better handle on my finances and the purpose of money. My money is producing at a hundred fold rate. The writer's knowledge of the universal principles and laws is displayed for our understanding.The wisdom in this book will increase your ability to acquire, circulate and achieve abundance in your life. There is a wealth of information in this book; a must for all entrepreneurs and those seeking the keys to money mastery. A storehouse of knowledge that will prepare you for success. This book you can not read just once; It is a great reference for maintaining and motivating you towards the attainment of prosperity.

Money magnifies what you are! Understanding its power is a key to financial freedom and prosperity. "The Power of Money" addresses the acquisition, utilization, and investment of money, including principles of wealth; tithing, borrowing, making friends with unrighteous mammon, sowing a reaping, and reasons why men fail. Many have testified about the profound impact this book has had on their lives and business. Bishop E. Bernard Jordan has written well over 30 books.

I've been looking for a book about web pricing for a while now!
We all know Web Design prices is so "Secretive"! But, this book breaks down everything that you need to know and have! If you're a web designer just starting out and is in need of pricing help! This book is the book!

Now in a completely revised, updated and expanded second edition, Robert Brenner's Price Guide For Web Services: How To Make Money On The Informational Highway continues to hold its place as the industry reference "bible" for learning how to identify and categorize costs, partition jobs to the task level, set baseline prices, find break-even levels, and bid flat rates on any project. Brenner offers helpful tips, techniques and strategies for effective pricing tactics and explains how to select the best services to offer, when and how to raise prices, how to use coupons and rebates to increase sales, how to counter cutthroat competitors, and how to achieve maximum profits. Price Guide For Web Services is a "must" for all corporate and independent entrepreneurial operations with an Internet aspect to their marketing strategy and business plan.

Extremely readable. One could read this book in a single sitting and get a great jumpstart to an understanding of fixed income markets - the why and the how.

Wiseman has an engaging style of writing which prevents the stifled yawns normally associated with reading this genre, and keeps one turning the pages...

The book nicely covers the fundamental theory of why there exists a fixed income market, then turns to the players and discusses what they do, and finally covers some of the fundamental trading strategies and math employed to turn a buck.

Nice one...

i found this book very well written. It provides detail and yet covers that what it says it does. I find that Wiseman explains concepts in a verystraight forward way. Although i had to pause to eat and think about some of the financial products discussed such as "par yields". I found I was able to understand the book. The book contains some of the trader jargon and a outline of the players involved in the market. I think that anyone who wants to something with securities or trading should read this, before/during/after an intership. As the english say "Wiseman" is the dogs ballocks!! get this book!

This is a great starter guide for someone who is starting out in investments. I bought this book just before opening my first online trading account and it helped me a great deal. The book is in the form of questions and answers. It is almost like an extended dictionary where you can look up all your investment bases. The book covers stock, mutual funds, bonds, options and futures, retirement planning, estate planning, insurance and annuities. It has questions like:
-What is a sell stop limit order?
-How will earnings per share make me money?
-How does dollar cost averaging work?
-What are zero-coupon bonds?
-What is a NIV in mutual funds?
-What are the benefits of an annuity?
-What is a 403(b) retirement plan?

This book does a brilliant job of categorizing the basics of money and investing. Simply answering complex questions when it comes to Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Retirement, and more, I have found this book indispensible when it comes to explaining to others about the basics of investing. It is a MUST read for any investor who is completely clueless when it comes to investing.