Grow Your Money: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Jonathan D. Pond (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2007

Jonathan D. Pond delivers clear, essential, and easy-to-apply secrets for people ready to get serious about their finances.People today wrestle with all sorts of financial dilemmas-from paying for their kids' education to making mortgage payments to investing for retirement to putting some money aside to spend now. Pond, the father of three lively daughters and the most successful fund-raiser in PBS history, knows what it's like to juggle myriad financial demands at once. Grow Your Money features his 101 top easy-to-use financial secrets, including details on:-Why you should pay off your credit balances later rather than sooner-Successful stock investing-Boring ways to get rich-Tricks for home buyers that can save thousands of dollars-Creating a real estate empire-sensiblyAnd much more.With Grow Your Money! Pond has written a book that even the most investment-phobic people can quickly use and enjoy while straightening out their finances.

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About the Author

Jonathan D. Pond's work in educating the public on financial matters has been far-reaching and widely recognized. His sixteen prime-time public television specials have been critically acclaimed for their effectiveness in providing useful and understandable financial guidance to people of all financial circumstances. He is the author of You Can Do It! The Boomer's Guide to a Great Retirement; Your Money Matters; 1001 Ways to Cut Your Expenses; and Four Easy Steps to Successful Investing.Jonathan has been the pioneer in bringing low-cost, personalized money guidance to American households. His customized financial review reports are the most popular thank-you gift in public television history. He is widely sought as an objective and entertaining observer of the investing and personal financial planning scenes, and he has made regular national appearances on all of the network and cable television stations, including regular segments on CNN and over fifty appearances on NBC's Today Show. Pond has received many awards, including the Malcolm Forbes Public Awareness Award for Excellence in Advancing Financial Understanding and an Emmy Award for his contributions to a television series on financial planning in the twenty-first century.The American Society of Association Executives and the Newsletter Writers Association have recognized Jonathan as an outstanding author, and over one million copies of his books have been sold. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, Emory University, and the Harvard Business School.Although he often says the key to financial success is never taking financial responsibility for anything that eats, Jonathan doesn't always practice what he preaches. He resides in a Boston suburb with his wife, three daughters, and one slothful dog. Reader of over four hundred audiobooks, Dick Hill has won three coveted Audie Awards and been nominated numerous times. He is also the recipient of several AudioFile Earphones Awards. AudioFile includes Dick on their prestigious list of Golden Voices.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged edition (December 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400135850
• ISBN-13: 978-1400135851
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,242,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Comprehensive Finance Book Everyone Can Use!, February 10, 2008

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Melissa Kaye (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest (Hardcover)

This is a wonderful educational book on numerous areas of personal finance. It includes topics such as:

Buying and Maintaining a Home
Profiting from a Fabulous Career
Reducing Taxes
Investing in Stocks, Bonds and Real Estate
Retirement Planning
Estate Planning and Insurance
Educating Children about Money and Personal Finance

This is the most comprehensive finance book I've read and it's easy to read with some humor thrown in here and there. The author uses numerous detailed examples to illustrate his points which really help the reader understand the ideas. The book also has a companion website where the reader can go for more information or more up-to-date information as this book ages.

This is not a book that has to be read cover-to-cover. I did that, but if you want to find topics relevant to you, the author includes an age-based checklist in the front. I also really like that the end of the book includes a checklist by month of the things you should be doing throughout the year. It makes keeping up with your finances look less daunting!

The author made it easy for me to come away from the book with my own "To-Do" list, so I definitely got something out of reading this book! I also gained some new perspectives on certain areas - for example, it's a good idea to plan for early retirement because some people plan to retire later, but end up having to retire early. (You don't want to run out of money) I think the author has good insight and great ideas and I agree with his financial strategies.

Great book for all to read!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great tips, December 19, 2007

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M. Lenz "eire" (Kansas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest (Hardcover)

I really like the tips in this book. They work for all ages from someone just getting into learning about money to retirement. It is easy to read and you can skip around as you need to. I only give it a 4 because I wish a few tips had some more detail or at least suggestions of where to get more detail.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GROW YOUR MONEY BY JONATHAN D POND MAKES GOOD SENSE AND MORE DOLLARS, April 2, 2008

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J. M. Beckman "Judy Beckman" (Toledo, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grow Your Money!: 101 Easy Tips to Plan, Save, and Invest (Hardcover)

At last, there is a book for the nonfinancially astute that discusses money matters in such a clear, understandable way that it motivates people to apply some of the 101 tips to their own situations and look forward to a richer future. In GROW YOUR MONEY 101 EASY TIPS TO PLAN, SAVE, and INVEST, Jonathan D. Pond covers every aspect of handling income from first allowances to honoring heirs in estate planning. The book is a fluent reading of investment topics sprinkled with humor and illustrated with basic arithmetic. Points are well formulated, inarguable, and easy to implement. They give hope to everyone, no matter what stage in life nor how many resources to squeeze for more value. Besides the book itself, the author maintains a website for readers to get most up-to-date information for individual needs.

Everyone has to think about how they will manage money, but it is difficult to find uncomplicated material for advice. And, as the author points out, financial experts give confusing explanations that can be biased in a way that will "grow more money" for themselves from fees, sales, and/or commissions. Best objective advice is in this book. I was particularly impressed with advantageous tax savings I can take and would not have known about. I also was relieved to learn how to make affordable sound investments with a limited budget and without the risk or difficulty I previously imagined.

This is a book that will benefit everyone. It is a "must have" for every household, basic for a secure financial future.