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Title: The Wealthy Barber: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent by David Chilton ISBN: 0761513116 Publisher: Prima Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7
Rating: 5
Summary: A One Stop, largely Jargon-free Guide to Money Management
Comment: We're besieged with financial data and ideas these days. Money rolls in and out of markets--fortunes made and lost and made again. Water cooler discussion no longer turns on weekend fun and childrens' soccer, but instead on internet investing and day trading fantasies.
The Wealthy Barber is the book for the person who wants to live his or her financial life with simplicity, integrity, and a quiet pursuit of slow wealth acquisition. The format of the book is to use a fictional setting--an advice-giving barber who shows middle-class people how to maximize what they have without undue stress or bother. The author's simple mission is to show the reader that one need not be a pinball wizard in the stock market to rack up a few points towards wealth and an easy retirement.
Do you want a book to read which is easy to follow, sound in its goals and advice, and basically a simple, good read? Then put down that copy of Field and Stream and step up into the barber's chair!
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely anyone can retire a millionaire...
Comment: ...if you apply the principles in The Wealthy Barber soon enough!
Soon enough. Those are very important words, and they remind me of the main reason that I tend to hate books about financial planning... they usually make me feel as if the old maxim that says "the best time to plant an oak tree is twenty years ago" was coined by someone just after they reviewed my own financial portfolio! But this book is so different... it is everywhere ENCOURAGING, and ANYONE (at any age) can begin to benefit from its principles. In a light, humorous, and UN-technical way, Chilton's fictional "wealthy barber" Roy lets us in on some very basic but dynamic financial advice, such as:
- invest 10% of all you make for long-term growth. (ie. mutual funds). - pay yourself first. (have the money come right out of your bank account before you get a chance to spend it). - take advantage of the benefits of dollar-cost averaging.
He goes on to talk about life insurance, wills, real estate, income tax, and of course... the "eighth wonder of the world" the magic of compound interest, which is, simply put, interest on principal and interest, not just simple interest on principal. Listen to this scenario (from ch.4): "If you had started putting $30.00 a month away, the equivalent of a dollar a day, at age eighteen and you continued until age sixty-five, averaging a 15% annual return, how much would you end up with?" Someone in the story hazards a guess and says $70,000? The barber tells him the correct answer... (are you ready for this)? It is approximately $2,000,000. It's enough to make an oak tree turn into a weeping willow! Nobody told me about this stuff when I was an acorn!
This is why I believe that this easy-to-read book about the path to future self-reliance/prosperity should be MANDATORY reading in high-school... there should be a course called Wealthy-Barberism. A great gift for a graduate, and written in a lively engaging way that will encourage the rest of us that it is never too late to start using our common cents!
Rating: 4
Summary: A good first book on financial principles
Comment: I read this book three years ago and though most of its content seems to be common sense. I was amazed at how little I actually knew about financial matters. I saw myself clearly in some of the characters, as I too was living beyond my means, and had no plan for retirement.
The book's narrative style makes it very readable (and there are not many financial books that can make that claim). It will not tell you what to invest in, or how to make a quick million. What it will help you do is set a solid foundation for your future. I am happy to say that I have finally freed myself of high interest credit card debt, and am now beginning to invest in mutual funds. I owe a lot of my initial impetus to reading this book. The principles in this book should be taught in highschools around the country.
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Title: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason ISBN: 0451205367 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko ISBN: 0671015206 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning by David Chilton ISBN: 0773762167 Publisher: Stoddart Pub Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Instant Millionaire: A Tale of Wisdom and Wealth by Mark Fisher ISBN: 0931432723 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill ISBN: 0449214923 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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