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I Will Teach You To Be Rich Paperback – March 23, 2009
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Publication dateMarch 23, 2009
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“Don’t let the breezy, irreverent style of this book fool you. It contains serious advice on personal-finance decisions from budgeting and savings to spending and investing.” —Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street
“Ramit Sethi is a rising star in the world of personal finance writing . . . one singularly attuned to the sensibilities of his generation . . . His style is part frat boy and part Silicon Valley geek, with a little bit of San Francisco hipster thrown in.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“The easiest way to get rich is to inherit. This is the second best way—knowledge and some discipline. If you’re bold enough to do the right thing, Ramit will show you how. Highly recommended.” —Seth Godin
“Particularly appealing to the younger generation with its easy-to-read, no-holds-barred language.”—Business Insider
“Ramit’s like the guy you wish you knew in college who would sit you down over a beer and fill you in on what you really need to know about money—no sales pitch, just good advice.” —Christopher Stevenson, Credit Union Executives Society
“Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You to Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work. This is a great guide to money management for twentysomethings—and everybody else.” —J. D. Roth, Editor, GetRichSlowly.org
“. . . one of our favorite personal finance sites.” —Lifehacker
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As irreverent and entertaining as he is practical and wise, Sethi explains how to beat banks and credit cards at the fee game, automate your cash flow, negotiate for a raise, manage student loans, and enjoy your lattes and Manolo Blahniks by practicing conscious spending. It's how to master your money with the least amount of effort―and then get on with your life.
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- Publisher : Workman Publishing; 1st edition (March 23, 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0761147489
- ISBN-13 : 978-0761147480
- Item Weight : 13.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #32,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is definitely the best personal finance book I've read so far. It's a logical, step-by-step, practical handbook for financial success, specially written for people in their 20's. Sethi gives advice on “automatically enabling yourself to save, invest, and spend - enjoying it, not feeling guilty...because you’re spending only what you have.” His main point: automate your finances so you effortlessly save and invest, leaving you money to spend on things you love without feeling guilty. Automatic saving and investing helps overcome psychological barriers and laziness.
In addition to his emphasis on automation, I agreed with Sethi’s recommendation for long-term, passive, buy-and-hold investing instead of speculative, market-timing investing. I also liked Sethi’s 85 Percent Solution, which states that it's better to act and get it 85% right than to do 0%; sometimes good enough is good enough, and it’s always better than doing nothing.
Another good message is "spend extravagantly on the things you love, and cut costs mercilessly on the things you don't." That's valuable because everyone defines being "rich" differently, and it's not all about money. Money is just the tool we use to acquire the material possessions and experiences we want. That's the difference between being cheap and being frugal; being cheap is trying to cut spending on everything, and being frugal is cutting costs on the things you don't care about so that you can splurge on the things you do.
I liked the concept of making a Conscious Spending Plan instead of a budget. Almost no one actually makes a budget, and even fewer follow it. Instead, consciously decide how you'll spend your money. I especially like this idea of guilt-free spending, because too often the recommendation is to limit all spending. But people in their 20s want to live it up, not sit at home and pinch every penny! The Conscious Spending Plan lets you spend a certain percentage of your money on whatever you want, without feeling guilty, since you’re paying yourself and your bills first.
The book is written in the form of a 6-week action plan. Each chapter describes the tasks and reasoning behind them, and ends with a checklist of steps to take. Here are the weeks:
Week 1: Credit Cards. Check your credit, pick a good credit card, set up automatic payments, pay off debt.
Week 2: Bank Accounts. Open or assess your checking account, open and fund a high-interest savings account.
Week 3: Investing Accounts. Open a 401(k), make a plan to pay off debt, open a Roth IRA and set up automatic payment.
Week 4: Conscious Spending. Create a Conscious Spending Plan, track spending, and cut in the right places.
Week 5: Automatic Money Flows. List and link accounts, then set up an Automatic Money Flow to automatically fund the 4 categories of your Conscious Spending Plan.
Week 6: Investing Choices. Figure out your investing style, research investments, and buy funds.
The book gives a fairly in-depth explanation of the concepts and fundamentals of personal finance, but also contains plenty of examples of actual bank accounts and funds. There are many references to the 2008 recession and other events, so those parts of the book didn't age well.
Notes
Personal Finance Ladder
Rung 1: invest enough in 401(k) to get company match
Rung 2: pay off debt
Rung 3: invest as much as possible in Roth IRA
Rung 4: put more into 401(k), as much as possible
Rung 5: invest in non-retirement (taxable) account
Conscious Spending Plan recommended percentages (save and invest more if possible)
50-60% on fixed costs
10% on long-term investments
5-10% on savings goals
20-35% on guilt-free spending
Investing
Use target-date funds or index funds.
Invest aggressively in retirement accounts, since retirement is so distant.
Recommended financial institutions: Vanguard, T. Rowe, Schwab
Rebalance every 12-18 months by investing more in underperforming assets (not selling outperforming assets).
Hold tax-inefficient (income-generating) assets like bonds in tax-advantaged accounts.
Hold tax-efficient assets like index funds in taxable accounts.
Choose funds based on:
1. Expense ratio
2. Asset allocation
3. 10-15 year return
Model your portfolio after David Swenson’s Yale Endowment portfolio:
30% US stocks
15% developed international stocks
5% emerging market stocks
20% REITs
15% government bonds
15% TIPS
Buying a house
Houses are a poor investment compared to stocks; they’ve historically returned 0% after inflation. Before buying a house, determine the total monthly payment including mortgage, taxes, insurance, and maintenance. It should be less than 30% of your gross monthly income.
The total house price should be less than 3 times your annual gross income.
Buy a house only if you can live in it for 10 years. Make a 20% down payment and get a 30 year fixed rate mortgage.
To be fair, I probably should have listened to this one, but I did many of the other things Sethi points out.
Additional notes
Use savings for goals less than 5 years away.
Set your accounts for automatic deferrals, transfers, and payments to automatically direct money into retirement accounts, savings, bills, and a spending allowance.
Negotiate a higher total compensation (salary plus benefits) by researching compensation for comparable jobs and proving the value you bring to the company.
One thing I did was that I continuously talked to my friends about the book and we sat down together and completed a lot of the actions in sequence. By having those around me also aligned it made easier for me not to be tempted to go out. For example, we decided only to go out to eat for lunch once a week to stick to our plan.
Sethi also gives many tools and recommendations throughout the book to help you accomplish your goals.
When I started reading the techniques I got disappointed because I am not a USA citizen..
All the technicies he used to make you rich is suitable for people who are living and working in the USA, or have similar banking and retirement system as the USA.
I believe if the writer can use an approach where it can benefit the people who use the international financial and retirement systems (such as Dave Ramsey when he wrote the Total Money Takeover book) it will be a great book because Ramit method in explaining how to use the banking and retirement facilities is acceptable by most people who disagree with the methods used by Dave Ramsey for instant.
I wish to see another version of this book by Ramit where I will enjoy and benefit of reading it next time.
I followed the simple steps and I am a MILLION Gazillionaire...
Actually.. I save a bunch of money by dropping my bad bank and I saved a bunch on ATM fees.
I may not be rich yet, but I am a lot smarter than the people I work with.
Actually, I am smarter than most people I know.
I am also much prettier and dress better.
The book will teach you how to:
Get your financial accounts organized you need: Regular Checking/Savings with physical branches near you, online high interest savings account, investment account. The book will teach you how to set up these accounts, and automate sending money from one account to the other. This way you don't really need a detailed budget to control spending, you send your savings away from your checking account and only spend what you have left in checking every month.
Figure out where you might be wasting money - The book teaches you how to stop wasting money on bank fees, high cable bills etc, but also just tells you to figure out where you might be spending money that you don't really care about and stop it. If you loooove your lattes and never go to the gym, then keep buying your lattes but stop paying your gym for nothing! If you buy lattes but you don't really care about them then stop, etc.
Ok here are the best specific accounts I use (2017).
Local Bank - Bank of America (yes they are evil but sometimes you need a local branch, and don't worry they have a very small portion of my money). This one doesn't really matter just pick one with branches near you. When you get money (paycheck etc) it goes here. Once a month you send a specific amount of $$ to Online High Interest Savings. Pay your credit card bills using this account.
Online High Interest Savings -- Ally Bank has the best rate right now, Capital One 360 (used to be ING Orange), is the other main one. You keep a set amount in here that is your reserve funds (2-3 months of expenses). If possible pay your car payment, and mortgage/rent using auto draft from this account. Then every month a set amount of $$ gets sent from here to your true long term savings which is your investment account.
Investment Account -- CHARLES SCHWAB!!!! -- Right now I think Chuck is the best investment house. I have been using them for years and I have literally never paid them a single penny in fees for making trades or anything else. They have the best array of no fee ETFs. Use their "ETF Porfolio Builder" to help you pick your Index ETF's and you are off and running with investing in the stock market! You can also get a real person on the phone now and then for no cost if you want to ask questions. Also when you have an investment account with them you can get a checking account where they pay you back for every single penny in ATM fees! So if you're in Vegas and the ATM charges you $10 to withdraw cash, Chuck gives that money back to you! Never again feel stupid for pulling money from an ATM!
Credit Cards – Stop with the points and the miles. It’s a shell game, its kinda fun and it seems like you’re winning but you’re not. Cash back the best way to optimize
Citi Double Cash – 2% cash back on every single purchase you make. No revolving categories etc. No annual fee. This is the best cash back card on the market.
Amex Blue Cash Preferred -- $75 fee per year, 3% back at gas stations, 6% back at grocery stores (with a cap), 1% on everything else. For families where gas and groceries are large expense items this card is very much worth it.
Ok go buy this book and start optimizing your finances! Once you have all this done, then maaaybe think about buying specific stocks. But probably not, its just gambling.
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Some of the information is outdated - the book was released in 2010, I did pass over some sections and it may be what you know already however- if you need a little kick, structure and refocus I would recommend this book. Look forward to reading the rest!


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