How to build wealth the smart way—slow and steady This book will show you how to take control of your finances and grow your wealth using nothing more than a few key principles and commonsense wisdom. It shows you how to let go of easy excuses, stop waiting around for magically simple solutions, set intelligent financial goals, and design an action plan that you can follow through to completion. Using a storytelling approach, it shares the financial experiences of the author and her clients, guiding readers through the tools and tactics necessary to effect positive financial change in their lives. Although focused on personal finance goals, the lessons here easily translate to life itself.

Most of us lack the nerve to be entrepreneurs, but award-winning finance writer Mary Holm shows how you can get richer - slowly but surely - and still sleep soundly. What's more, you can do it simply. Read this lively, jargon-free book, set up a sraightforward strategy that suits you and your budget, then sit back and watch your wealth grow while you get on with the rest of your life. Visit www.maryholm.com for more information on savvy and safe investing.

A completely revised and updated, and greatly expanded edition of our bestselling personal finance title, "Get Rich Slow" guides confused and concerned readers past the myths, quick-fixes, and schemes to sound advice about insurance, saving, investing, real estate, and much more.

Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?Such questions-at the heart of slow money-represent the first steps on our path to a new economy. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations and serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets. Leading the charge is Woody Tasch-whose decades of work as a venture capitalist, foundation treasurer, and entrepreneur now shed new light on a truer, more beautiful, more prudent kind of fiduciary responsibility. He offers an alternative vision to the dusty old industrial concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when dollars, and the businesses they financed, lost their connection to place; slow money, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in the new economic, social, and environmental realities of the 21st century. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money is a call to action for designing capital markets built around not extraction and consumption but preservation and restoration. Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes.

The first investment book to approach the art of accumulating wealth from a mature and realistic perspectiveIn refreshing contrast to the usual get-rich-quick schemes, Get Rich Slowly outlines an intelligent, careful, five-step financial strategy that anyone can use to create his or her own personal fortune. Using simple graphics and easy-to-follow advice, respected investments financial expert William Spitz shows how to quickly plot out the best financial strategy for each person's needs, including risk, goals, variety of investments, and needs for future expenses. For young or old, novice or experienced, wealthy or of modest means, Get Rich Slowly is a sensible, foolproof program for financial freedom and stability.

Like intrepid hunters, you are involved in a serious race -- winning the money game. Inflation may be outpacing you. The financial industry is outthinking and outmaneuvering you. Banks and insurance companies are outsmarting you. And your government is outvoting you. Everyone else, it seems, has their own agenda for your money. Most people know more about greening up their lawns, visiting lush vacation spots, and discussing last night's TV sitcom than about how to become wealthier. They spend more time earning their wealth than learning how to manage it. Get Rich Slow will enable you to tap into the powerful yet simple wealth-building tools the rich use to build and grow their fortunes. Whether you're trying to avoid the common mistakes most investors make, buy your next money pit (I'm sorry, I mean house), stomp out credit card debt, find the right mutual funds to invest in, or discover how to "cover your assets" with the right kinds of insurance, Get Rich Slow will give you the financial knowledge and wisdom you need to make the right choices. You will learn controversial personal finance truths, such as why retirement plans such as 401(k)s may not be your best bet, why your home could be your worst investment, why some no-load mutual funds can cost you more, and why your guaranteed pension may not be so guaranteed. Some people will inherit their wealth. The rest of us have no choice but to earn it, save it, and learn how to put it to work. Get rich yourself...a dollar at a time. Book jacket.