Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money (Paperback)

by Barbara Stanny (Author)
Key Phrases: financial enlightenment, synonym for loss, taking financial responsibility, Prince Charming, Wall Street Journal, Resourceful Women (more...)

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A heart-to-heart talk about the psychological and financial tools women need to take control of their economic destiny. -- The Seattle Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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A heart-to-heart talk about the psychological and financial tools women need to take control of their economic destiny. (The Seattle Times) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Illustrated. edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140266933
• ISBN-13: 978-0140266931
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #618,940 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wealth of financial advice for women., December 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money (Hardcover)

Balancing my checkbook makes me crabby. The
word "investment" gives me cramps. Fortunately,
*Prince Charming Isn't Coming* is the perfect
panacea for women who suffer from financial
phobia and monetary pain.

Barbara Stanny's book is worth reading! Her
advice is grounded in experience, which makes
it valuable. She shares how her own fiscal
disaster led to her financial self-education.
Now she is educating others.

Financial wisdom is an essential goal for all
women, insists Stanny. She identifies "The
Seven Realizations of Financial Enlightenment,"
priceless insights that serve as the basis for
her motivational money guide. The book
includes sound investment advice, great
resources and fundamental reasons for why
we should take charge of our financial situation.

Before reading *Prince Charming Isn't Coming,*
the only stock market I shopped was a local
grocery store. Halfway through the book, I
was perusing Wall Street Journals, browsing
the web for investment sites, and correctly
distinguishing between Peter and David Lynch.

"When a woman...makes financial decisions
based on who she is, not on what she should
do, and when she acts firmly and confidently
on those decisions, then she becomes a very
powerful woman," Stanny writes.

Power,eh? I like that.

*Prince Charming Isn't Coming* is more than a
financial fairytale, but it has a happy ending.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is wonderful, December 28, 2004

By	Jennifer Godwin (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found Barbara Stanny through David Bach's (*The Automatic Millionaire*) recommended reading list, and I'm pretty sure her books are changing my life. Ignore the whiners who complain "There's not enough investment advice in this book!" because that's not what *Prince Charming Isn't Coming* is about--and it's not at all what it *claims* to be about. It's about realizing that YOU, and only YOU, are in charge of your financial life, and that controlling your money and owning your future is actually much easier, more gratifying and less trouble than NOT enriching your life and understanding your money. Barbara Stanny is like an Abraham Lincoln for women--she sets us free. Her communication style is impeccable, and I want to give a copy of her--okay, her books--to everyone I know. HIGHLY recommended.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You CAN buy experience. . ., November 22, 1999

By A Customer

I have had this book for two hours. My husband has been trying to get me to take over the chequebook and I have been sticking my head in the sand-- knowing how much we need and what is going out and coming in has been depressing. I read Barbara's first chapter and asked for all the information on our finances which he gladly gave to me. I will be up all night sorting this mess out and instead of feeling safe in my ignorance, I feel a huge burden lifting as I am becoming informed as I begin to untangle things.

Barbara's most valuable degree is the one that she got from her gilded life and then being forced into the University of Hard Knocks. She is forthright and direct in her writing approach and shows how anyone can suffer from ignorance and benefit by finding out about things that directly affect them-- and to never trust lawyer ex husbands!

I am so thankful that I bought this wonderful book and for her exposing the emotional side that I wasn't aware that I was dealing with in confronting monetary issues. Thank you, thank you Ms Stanny!