The Motley Fool Investment Workbook

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Summary: A GREAT COMPANION TO THE MOTLEY FOOL INVESTMENT GUIDE!!!
Review: After reading their "Investment Guide" last summer, I [posadas802] really got hooked into this investing game and so far I've realized a 20% gain!!! When my wife got this "Workbook" for me, earlier this year, it really clarified questions I had on various aspects of investing. Specifically, the treatment of understanding financial reports and how to use them to your advantage to screen potential stocks was WELL presented in chapters 7 & 8 by the Foolish Brothers. Also, the topic of stock valuation was clearly presented in chapter 10. Now, I'm not a professional financial person or book critic, but someone who just expects results and the Gardner Brothers have given me this and the confidence to bullishly move on to territory I only thought the rich & Wall Street wise had a corner on. Many THANKS to David & Tom and the rest of the Motley Fool Team in Fooldom!!!

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Summary: Great supplement to Investors Guide.
Review: After reading TMF Investors Guide, I decided to give the workbook a try. It was worth the look. It guides you through all of the techniques described in the Investors Guide. With pencil and calculator in hand, I went through the entire workbook and now really have a clear picture of my own financial situation and how "foolish" investing will work for me. This book helps to clear up some of the hazy concepts that you might read about in other Motley Fool publications (ie. Foolish 4 and other Dow techniques). I say this is a great book to go through after reading the Motley Fool Investors Guide. It contains the same irreverent humor and lively writng and really reinforces everything the Gardners teach.

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Summary: TMF Investment Workbook Review from a Rookie.
Review: I bought the Fool Investment Workbook before I bought the Investment guide. The workbook was so clear,concise and to the point that I couln't wait to read the page. I knew very little about investing before I bought the book, but now I feel very comfortable investing. Of course I still have a lot to learn but what a fantastic start by simply reading one book. Thanks David for saving me a lot of time and money in lousy investments.

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Summary: Go from a 'fool" to a "Fool"
Review: I consider reading about investing about as dull a subject as I could imagine. This book has me looking for more. An absolute breeze to read and understand. I actually knew the answer to a question asked on TV's "Win Ben Steins Money" because of this book. Forget about winning money, after reading this you'll be excited about investing it!!

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Summary: Great book ...
Review: I'd thumbed through this book a couple times at the bookstore, but had always decided against it. I should have said that again when another Fool book "Rule Breakers, Rule Makers" came up as a ... bargain hardback book and succumbed to the whole in my wallet and got this book too. It's too condescending even for the investing novice, and the workbook part is scant and carries little value beyond the writing. Stick with "The Motley Fool Investment Guide" which has almost the same info, plus more.

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Summary: Read the other Fool books, not this one
Review: I'd thumbed through this book a couple times at the bookstore, but had always decided against it. I should have said that again when another Fool book "Rule Breakers, Rule Makers" came up as a ... bargain hardback book and succumbed to the whole in my wallet and got this book too. It's too condescending even for the investing novice, and the workbook part is scant and carries little value beyond the writing. Stick with "The Motley Fool Investment Guide" which has almost the same info, plus more.

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Summary: would help you get your financial act together.
Review: If you have loved TMF website, you can certainly gain a lot from this book. Be prepared to face the music when you are filling out the workbook to figure out your networth! I was pleasantly surprised though.

This book is practical and every adult should read and work through it to figure out one's financial standing. The guys are straight forward and tell you like it is.

You can use it to figure out your budget, spendings, how much you can actually invest and how to pay off your high interest debts.

Talks about DRIPs and DSPs, mutual funds, index funds etc etc.

I recommend to all my friends who are thinking about investing in stock market but are buried in debt from their fancy car purchases!

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Summary: Good study guide, but answers shouldn't be on the same page.
Review: This is the investment workbook which goes along with The Motley Fool Investment Guide. However you do not need the Motley Fool Investment Guide to use this book.

I like that this book gets you down in dirty into the actual analysis of companies, they have you analyse P/E ratios, P/S ratios, growth rates etc... Howver I don't like that the answers are written write next to the question. (Kind of defeats the whole purpose.) I also think its ok to have some humor in a book but this one is overloaded with silly questions from the Fools.

Unless you want to have a book to just for filling in the blanks I recommend not buying this book. I think one of the other Motley Fool books such as their "Investment Guide" or "You have more than you think" would be worth it instead.

Reed Floren

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Summary: New to Investing well then Step Right Up
Review: You will definitely enjoy the humor and laid back style of these characters. I had the privilige of hearing them speak at a conference and they really do wear the hats and try to de-mystify all this investment stuff. I had more of a financial background that some of my co-investors in a newly formed investment club and this workbook was certainly a blessing to them. What's a p/e ratio well you can look anyone in the eye and give them the straight skinny after doing the exercise in this book. As a matter of fact you will come away with a few jokes to help others understand it's no big deal. So if you don't like your financial info dry then give it a try.