The Motley Fool Investment Workbook (Motley Fool Books) [Paperback]

David Gardner (Author), Tom Gardner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 25, 2003 | Series: Motley Fool Books

Drawing on lessons learned in the past few turbulent years, the revised Motley Fool Investment Workbook shows how The Motley Fool's popular investment strategies continue to help regular people beat Wall Street's best money managers -- in good times and in bad. Updated to reflect today's whipsaw economy, you will learn how to evaluate a company's financial performance, which mutual funds make sense, and where to find havens for your retirement savings.

Demonstrating how to value companies in a roller-coaster era -- and providing more useful work sheets and space for tracking goals than ever before -- this new edition gives you all the information and calculations you need to make smart investment moves now, including how to:

Figure out how much money you have to invest

Devise a sensible -- and profitable -- investment strategy

Select winning stocks

Purchase stocks in the cheapest and fastest way possible

Protect your investments and learn when -- if ever -- to let them go

Brimming with worksheets, charts, and real-world examples -- all wrapped up by The Fool's trademark sense of humor -- The Motley Fool Investment Workbook will help you take control of your own financial destiny one step -- and one dollar -- at a time.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

The Gardners proclaim this to be a "stand-alone interactive guide," but it will appeal most to fans of their Motley Fool Investment Guide (1996) or their just-released You Have More Than You Think: The Motley Fool Guide to Investing What You Have (1998). In their trademarked (literally!) Foolish style, these two brothers provide the charts, graphs, questionnaires, and pop quizzes necessary to help people assess their own financial status, set goals, and develop a plan and method to reach those goals. The Gardners help make investment principles clear and are very effective in reaching those who may be put off by more traditional financial planning guides. Although their advice is quite sound, they serve it up irreverently and make it clear that they do not take themselves too seriously. David Rouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

The Wall Street Journal Humorous and savvy.

The Washington Post Funny and flip while containing solid information and advice for individual investors.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Rev Upd Su edition (March 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743229983
• ISBN-13: 978-0743229982
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent source for retaining what you've learned., September 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Motley Fool Investment Workbook (Paperback)

I am new to the investment world and for the last year, I have read several books on investing. The problem was I didn't remember all those equations and definitions. I teach chemistry and I could not imagine teaching it without ever giving example problems. This is exactly what the workbook does. Now, I remember all those equations and definitions. Good job, Fools.

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fools make sense. Great book for the novice investor!, July 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Motley Fool Investment Workbook (Paperback)

A little background on where this review is coming from: I am halfway through this workbook, I have never read the other books of the Gardner brothers, but decided to post a comment about this one since what I have read so far is pretty good. I am currently studying personal financial planning and investment options. In my view, this book is a good starter. The approach is fun and easy, the humour used by the authors in their writing makes the topic much easier to digest. Other pluses are: you encounter the tables and exercises just as you need them-- so that exercises and illustrations/examples of calculations are done with the flow of the whole book. Also, the questionnaire that determines your risk level is pretty innovative. And the workbook gave me a great refresher of my college accounting course. But most of all, the pages I have read make GOOD COMMON SENSE. And this is what will help the novice investor to lay down a solid foundation for financial planning and investing. If you are a beginner in the world of investing, get this book. You won't regret it. :)

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great supplement to Investors Guide., June 11, 2000

By 

T. Geoghegan (OR, USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Motley Fool Investment Workbook (Paperback)

After reading TMF Investors Guide, I decided to give the workbook a try. It was worth the look. It guides you through all of the techniques described in the Investors Guide. With pencil and calculator in hand, I went through the entire workbook and now really have a clear picture of my own financial situation and how "foolish" investing will work for me. This book helps to clear up some of the hazy concepts that you might read about in other Motley Fool publications (ie. Foolish 4 and other Dow techniques). I say this is a great book to go through after reading the Motley Fool Investors Guide. It contains the same irreverent humor and lively writng and really reinforces everything the Gardners teach.