You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead
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The New York Times bestselling author and star of A&E's reality series Big Spender, Larry Winget, cleans up America's personal finance crisis
More than 40 percent of families today are feeling financial pressure: spending more than they earn, and worrying about retiring and being dependent on the government, family, or charity. Larry Winget knows. He grew up poor, then made and lost a fortune when a business in which he'd invested went bankrupt. But he worked his way back from rock bottom to become a multimillionaire.
In You're Broke Because You Want to Be, Winget expands on the ideas that have made his popular television show Big Spender a hit and offers straightforward talk about coming to grips with your finances, such as:
· Feel bad. Have remorse. You need to feel deep emotion to take action. So start crying and take responsibility.
· Figure out who you owe and how much you owe. It'll be a scary number to face, but you need to know where you are and what you have.
"People are stupid, lazy, or they don't give a damn." You already know you need to do something; Larry will help you finally do something.
Are you more interested in looking cool and being cute or providing a financially secure future for your family? How you spend your money will tell you that. With a boot-camp regimen that is steeped in personal accountability, Winget cuts through the double-talk contained in most finance books and presents a simple, guided program that is sure to motivate anyone out of their money problems.
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Reviews for You're Broke Because You Want to Be
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Book was cool, the one thing I liked the most was about his son and why they need to be independent
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No nonsense advice for getting out of debt. It was a quick read.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5ok - "different" summarizes this book. The best chapter doesn't pull punches - Chapter 5 - How to cut expenses is bluntly honest about not spending money that you don't have. The list of "things I'm willing to give up" is an interesting concept for the broke. I think that I would have titled this list - Spending beyond necessities. And Larry helps the reader understand what the necessities of life are! This chapter will tempt you to recommend the book to family members and friends!
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Self-styled "irritational speaker" and host of Big Spender, Larry Winget adds to his personal fortune with this book of practical common sense advice for those with money problems. Filled mostly with anecdotes about how he was able to overcome a bankruptcy to become rich and successful, Winget's advice is disappointingly generic. Mostly, it can be summed up as follows: make more money than you spend. He does get into behavior modification a bit, but mostly in a manner of identifying some common traits of those with money problems (and some pegged me pretty well), and attempting to embarrass the reader into doing something about it. The book itself is structured to be like a work book, with assignments to create a budget, a long-term plan, and a commitment to follow through. This book is a good place to start. Winget is big on reading, though, and recommends a number of books throughout that should provide more precise suggestions, perhaps more applicable to a particular situation. For now, though I will try to follow Winget's suggestions and see where it leads.
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