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Wealth in A Decade: Brett Machtig's Proven System for Creating Wealth, Living Off Your Investments and Attaining a Financially Secure Life

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This book shows you how to: * get out of debt in three years * pay off your home in seven years * how to invest without gambling or having to predict the stock markets * and save enough to pay the remaining bills from the returns of your investment portfolio. As the author of this book, I have now helped thousands achieve wealth, which is simply living from the returns from your investments. People of all income levels and situations. If you can pay your bills with your cashflow, most of you can live off the returns of your investments in the same manner as the wealthy in less than 10 years. Of all the financial books out there, this one tells you how to get out of debt painlessly, manage your investments without having to predict the markets, and how to have freedom -- financial freedom. Other tools are available - audiocassettes, CD-ROMs and a wealth analysis (for those that want help, WCS will calculate for you how much you need to achieve wealth given your spending, how long it will take you to get out of debt, and how long it will take YOU to live off the returns of your investments. As I am writing this review of my own book, I am in Nashville preparing for an event for thousands of college students. On the flight to Nashville, Ed happened to sit next to me on my flight connecting through Memphis. Ed was 45 years old and a cameraman for ABC sports. I asked him as I do many folks, "What are the chances for you to achieve wealth?" He said he had two chances - slim and none. After a divorce and spending he cannot control he was not excited to work anymore. By the time we landed he knew exactly how he could achieve wealth in 49 months. Can you imagine how "juiced" he felt knowing there is light at the end of the tunnel. Knowing that he could stop being the perverbial gerbil running on the wheel with all his energy and going nowhere. Stop being a slave to your financial situation and read this book! I wish you wealth, health and love. Brett A. Machtig Author, Wealth In A Decade, The Corporate Guide To Profit & Wealth, Thrive By Thirty-five

It seems that the great principles on how to live, thrive, and survive don't ever change -- they are just recycled in the latest, greatest book of the moment. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing -- people often need repetition to take a solid message to heart.

Mr. Machtig incorporates many of these tried and true (but not new) foundations for creating wealth in his book. I have to give him credit for presenting the information in a fresh manner. Perhaps not as fresh as those Motley Fools, Tom and David Gardner, but Machtig definitely adds his twist on the presentation. Different people are receptive to various types of presentation, and Machtig's "Laws" could very well be the key to many people's future wealth. Anyone who tries to educate people on how to plan for the future deserves praise. There's too many people hyping the virtures of spending gobs of money on the latest fashion to overlook someone trying to teach people to be financially responsible.

A person could quibble over the quick introduction to different types of investments, but this book is more of a starting point than a full-blown tutorial, so I can let that point go. I do have trouble reconciling Machtig's reference to the well-know "Dogs of the Dow" strategy as his own. Perhaps he doesn't want to trouble the beginner with catchy references to the strategy, but I have trouble with the implication that he alone is responsible for analyzing and popularizing this approach. If he truly is, all apologies to him.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this book. I believe the principles are sound, and could likely lead the reader to become wealthy in a decade. Unfortunately, it takes more than just reading this book ... it takes real perseverance and dedication. This book has the ability to sell you on the idea that it is possible, which is the first step. There may be a lot more to learn after reading this book, but that first step of realization is a big one.

A final note: I differ with the previous review of 8/7/97 in that I don't think it's necessary to have Amway's continual residual income to attain your goals. No matter where your money initially comes from, you can get to where you want to be. Just a thought from a non-Amway person. ;-)

If this book and its principles were required learning for all U.S. citizens, our country would be out of debt and our citizens would all be comfortably wealthy in one generation. Well, maybe two. If people stopped being poverty ridden and afraid, there would be 95% less reason to want to fight wars because other countries wouldn't be a threat. Then, when other countries saw what we were doing in terms of our money, they would be motivated to learn the same principles, and just think what our world could be! It's a dream, but it's a dream we can accomplish, beginning with the wealth-building practices in Wealth In A Decade. Please, do yourself a favor and buy and read it. Thank you.

An excellent book for beginning as well as experienced investors. As a personal finance teacher, I recommend it to all of my students and find myself referring back to it for ideas on my personal portfolio.

While true "wealth in a decade" may be a stretch for most people, wealth in two or three decades is a very realistic goal for the majority of Americans. This book can show them the way.

This is a book that has very practical information that you can start implementing right away. At the back of every chapter he has a series of excercises that you go through and figure out your tolerance for risk, what goals do you have for your long term well being, etc.

It is great for using on conjunction with your personal goals that you may be setting, therefore giving you personal as well as financial goals.

This book lays out a simple, straight forward plan for financial stability. I have read a few "investment" books, but this one was the one that stuck with me. While a decade is probably a stretch for me, his principals are somthing that everyone can follow and connect with making this a great choice for anyone looking to add some peace of mind when it comes to their personal finances. I wish this book would have been required reading when I was in college, it would have given me a huge jumpstart! Thanks Brett!

This is simply the best book on wealth that I've ever read. Easy steps that help you build and secure your wealth in many areas of your life. From protecting assets to common sense investing, Mr. Machtig has laid it all out.

MANY investment books are gimmicky or too complex, this one is exactly what you've been looking for.

Brett Machtig stays out of the abstract - and instead focuses on what real people can and should do to better their money situation. Building wealth is a lifetyle process - not a hobby or weekend activity. The smallest attitude changes towards your daily spending habits / credit card payments / investment decisions build upon each other.

Wealth in a Decade honestly changed the way I look at my money. When you constantly stress about money, or your investments, or your debt, you are unhappy. I was. It's unavoidable. Mr. Machtig lays out a process whereby you go from working for money to your money working for you. Financial freedom is where you can wake up and work is optional.

From the debt-riddled post-graduate to the diligent saver, Wealth in a Decade has a strategy for you to get financially free. I highly recommend you put it on the top of your book list.

Quite possibly the best book on finance written for middle-class america. This book absolutely changed my financial life. I bought it ten years ago, read it, applied the principles and got results. I am not retired, but I attribute this to my lack of investing savvy during my early years. However, I am WAY ahead of where I would have been had I not read this book.

I would recommend reading the "The Sage Guide to Mutual Funds" immediately after reading this book. Had I done that, I would have had much better luck in the early years of the program. These two books together make a knockout combination.

Wealth in a Decade has made a big difference in my life. Though it's written in layman's terms, the information is solid, practical and realistic. It's like a swift kick in the butt..it's gets your attention and changes your behavior. I highly recommend it! I'm well on my way to Wealth In A Decade.