Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth: The 8 Secrets of How 5,000 Ordinary Americans Became Successful Investors--and How You Can Too

Authors: Edelman, Ric
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: BUS050000, BUS050020, BUS050030
ISBN: 9780061802294, Related ISBNs: 0061802298, 9780061802294, 9780062736864
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

How did a secretary, a firefighter, a retired naval officer, a housewife, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, and a pharmacist become wealthy? Bestselling author Ric Edelman has studied the wealth-making habits of these and 5,000 other ordinary Americans.What he found is revealed for the first time in this book: the eight great secrets to attaining wealth.

This extraordinary book is filled with the advice of everyday people—people like your own friends and neighbors—who entered the world of personal finance, often with no real plan at the start, but who found ways to accumulate astonishing amounts of money.

A rich, irreplaceable lifetime of wealthbuilding experience is now at your fingertips.Here you will learn to arrange your finances and make your investment decisions so you can reach your goals and achieve financial security. Including:

  • How to turn your mortgage into a wealth-enhancing tool;
  • Why small investments work better than big ones;
  • How to max out on your employer-sponsored retirement plan;
  • Your investments: when to hold them and when to fold them;
  • Financial news: when to pay attention and when to turn it off;
  • Plus, of course, much, much more.

Let your neighbors lend you a hand and let Ric Edelman guide you through their lessons. So come along for an eye-opening journey with thousands of ordinary folks who found their way to extraordinary wealth.

Five thousand of your neighbors found hard-won financial success using the same eight secrets to attaining wealth. The lessons they learned through many years of life experience, and lots of trial and error, can now be yours!

After studying the habits of thousands of financially successful people, bestselling author Ric Edelman found that they shared eight fundamental methods for attaining wealth. Now you can adopt these same eight strategies yourself.

Let the extraordinary experience of ordinary investors—along with Ric Edelman's expert analysis—help you create your own financial success story.

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