Safely Prosperous or Really Rich : Choosing Your Personal Financial Heaven

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Summary: Highly Recommended!
Review: This book offers a somewhat rambling compendium of solid (if unoriginal) investment advice. Author Howard Ruff's strength is his blunt, straightforward, unpretentious style. He covers a great deal of ground, discussing everything from the advisability of investing in gold to the principles of life and time management. Many readers will no doubt find this both useful and refreshing. Others will look for more depth - and the author obliges by including appendices with sources of additional information on various topics. We suggest this book to those who are new at financial planning and who lust for wealth, but are willing to settle for prosperity. And safety. And sound investing.

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Summary: A book for Main Street, NOT Wall Street
Review: This is an investment book that doesn't pull punches, and it's written for Main Street, not Wall Street in language any alert person can understand. All of us have dads, moms, friends, children, grandkids, nieces and nephews whose finances we worry about. If they take Ruff's advice, they may never lack for money. Ruff tells you flat out: how wealthy people really get that way; how people can worship money until it becomes their God; how Ruff's cautionary life lessons can help you. My friend Art Linkletter, of Kids Say the Darndest Things fame, put it this way to me: "Howard Ruff has extraordinarily practical investment insights and his complete honesty about his own mistakes make this an invaluable financial resource. I loved it."