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As the title spell it all, this is the part 4 of book review: How to Get Rich

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23. Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market–by John Mauldin;

Some reviews:-

• This book asks where the stock market will be in ten years’ time, and how you should invest as a result of that. It’s potentially important, because discussion of long-term investment strategy (as opposed to next quarter’s earnings) is so rare - yet obviously critical for investors.
• The entire book can be boiled down to one conclusion: the next decade will see a predominately declining market. Most of the book is spent detailing why this must be.

24. Rule #1 the Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week!–by Phil Town;

Some reviews:-

• What I really like about this book is that it explains key financial figures for calculating the future worth of a company and for deciding what a good price would be to pay for the company today (in terms of the paid stock price.) This aspect of the book is invaluable and is easily worth the cost of the book.
• So the author is disingenuous in suggesting that you, after reading the book, and putting in a few minutes a week looking at web sites, can discover a gem that the greats like Buffet haven’t been able to find. Bargains like this don’t come along everyday. But they do come along over time.

25. Boomtown USA: The 7-1/2 Keys to Big Success in Small Towns –by John M. Schultz;

Some reviews:-

• Perhaps the biggest single contribution this book makes is to demonstrate through hard data that there may very well be a positive payoff to all the visioning, strategic planning, consensus-building and financial investing that a community must engage in while attempting to redefine itself.
• This is a useful book on an interesting topic I have not seen discussed elsewhere. Don’t buy it for an enthralling read. Instead, buy it if you have an interest in the future of a small town.

26. The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing–by Benjamin Graham;

Some reviews:-

• the combination of pioneer Ben Graham?s original work coupled with Zweig?s meticulous and enjoyable update, make this a remarkable book about investments and investor behavior that every new and experienced investor should read. Of the 500 investing books that I?ve read, this one certainly is one of the greats of all time.
• The book is lengthy and “solid”, as opposed to other finance books that hope to explain investment in 100-200 pages. Topics include stocks vs. bonds, inflation, security analysis, and margin of safety (Graham’s analysis of the assets of a company in relation to its debt). Zweig’s commentary is useful, with footnotes to clarify historical references and, occasionally, demonstrate instances where Graham’s predictions proved untrue.

27. The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don’t–by Kenneth L. Fisher;

Some reviews:-

• Full disclosure: I am a financial advisor. And I’ve read Kenneth Fisher’s column in Forbes since he started writing it 22 years ago.This is a superb book. The sub-title is “Investing by Knowing What Others Don’t” and it is the best book I’ve read on investing and asset managment in years.The author is an investment manager based in California, who also writes a monthly column in Forbes magazine. He’s a pretty successful guy, ranked 297 on the latest Forbes 400 Richest American’s list. Yup. That’s successful allright.

28. The Elements of Style, with Revisions, an Introduction and a New Chapter on Writing–by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White;

Some reviews:

• It’s a very short book, only about 80 pages or so. You learn everything from words that are often spelled wrong, to punctuation, to style, etc. Very blunt and to the point. No exercises in here, problems 1 - 10 all.
• When I write a book I use only a handful of reference tools: dictionary, thesaurus, Gregg’s Reference Handbook, Writers Market, and the Elements of Style. Strunk and White is a wonderfully-written, extraordinarily concise tool that pays homage to classic high-end English
• This amazing compilation fills only thirty-eight pages, yet covers ninety percent of good writing fundamentals.

29. Positioning the battle for Your Mind–by Al Ries and Jack Trout;

Some reviews:-

• A classic in marketing how-tos, the authors explain the importance of offering something for sale that appeals to the buyer, not to the seller, creator, or manufacturer. The product is positioned relative to the consumer, and her needs and viewpoints of value.
• In any case, this remains a quick, good read with short chapters.
• Yes, this is the renowned marketing classic, revered for bringing to light the now ubiquitous strategy of positioning. If you’re in business, you probably have at least a fuzzy notion of what the term means.

30. Guerrilla Marketing, Secrets for Making Big Profits From Your Small Business–by Jay Conrad Levinson;

Some reviews:-

• The material is carefully organized within five sections: The Guerrilla Approach to Marketing — Updated, Mini-Media Marketing, Maxi-Media Marketing, Nonmedia Marketing, and finally, Launching Your Guerrilla Marketing Attack.
• A marvelous book that convinced me to get a few of the other books in the series with interesting titles like ‘Guerrilla P.R. WIRED’ that addresses online Guerrilla marketing along with the offline approach.
• Contrary to what the name may imply to you, Guerrilla Marketing is not about taking advantage of customers in some unsuspected way, it’s about deepening your understanding of your customer so you can serve them better.

31. Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not–by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter;

I don’t think I need to put any review of this book. If you are not sure what is this book talking about, please make sure you get one now.

32. How We Got Here : A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology And Markets–by Andy Kessler;

Some reviews:

• This is a very entertaining read. It is similar to James Burke’s famous “Connections”, but this actually has a more focused purpose that Mr. Burke’s wonderful vignettes.

33. The Art of the Start–by Guy Kawasaki;

Some reviews:-

• This book can be likened to a quick reference guide for starting a business and useful strategies: has just what is needed without heavy-duty or dry language.
• This is a well organized book that uses a bit of humor to impart an important message of how to lay the ground work for a start-up.

34. Accounting Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))–by John A. Tracy.

Some reviews:-

• I took Accounting in college and had forgotten alot of things but this book has helped me to remember the things that I had forgotten.

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