The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life: Loral Langemeier

The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a CASH MACHINE FOR LIFE, by Loral Langemeier

"Loral's book may be the first I have read that doesn't patronize you or keep you from making the big money I know you have the ability to make with some help, help from Loral. She, like me, doesn't make it 'easy' and 'simple.' ... / ... "You want to keep up with the Joneses, be my guest. You want to trounce the Joneses and the rest of the gang? Don't just read this book, act on it." ~ Jim Cramer, best-selling author of Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World and host of CNBC's Mad Money

Loral Langemeier is an indefatiguable optimist, and her enthusiasm is backed by real-life experience. She's bold, she's passionate and she knows her stuff. She'll tell it to you straight and she has a wealth of ideas to help you take yourself from living paycheque to paycheque, to enjoying financial independence.

Loral is an entrepreneur who has achieved much; wealth, independence and noteriety as an author and 'Millionaire Maker.' She has helped countless people make the transition from a 9 to 5 job to independent business owner, and her real-life smarts shine through on every page of this book. She bases her advice on the most practical of precepts: make money doing what you already know.

Loral addresses many aspects of developing what she calls a 'cash machine,' including the three most common options: buying a business, starting a business, or improving/revamping your existing business. Her aim is to have you churning out profits as quickly and consistently as possible, and she wisely discusses what she calls straddling - holding on to your current steady job while establishing your cash machine.

The business world is undergoing fundamental change. With more and more of mainstream society looking to create more flexible and personal means of income, Loral's book is a timely reality check, ensuring that whether you are considering starting a business or need help reworking your existing business, you take the right steps and make the right moves.

As Jim Cramer says, don't just read this book - act on it!

The Little Book That Beats the Market: Joel Greenblatt

The Little Book That Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt
Foreword by Andrew Tobias

"Simply perfect. One of the most important investment books of the last 50 years!" ~ Michael F. Price

This deceptively simple book is a brilliant primer on investing. On the dustcover, Joel asks us 'Can you spare two hours to learn how to beat the market?'

Now, if that was some 'sales letter' hype, I would have relegated the book to the back shelf without even reading it, but when it comes from an industry titan like Joel Greenblatt, and is accompanied by a foreword from the legendary Wall Sreet icon Andrew Tobias, I listen up.

True to his word, Joel takes us through the basics of investing to beat the market, in a way that 'even a 4th grader could understand.' It is this simplicity that makes it plausible...the fact is that what he says in this little book makes ABSOLUTE sense.

Among the virtues Greenblatt extolls are patience and discipline, musts for any investor, and musts which are in short supply in the general investing public. Perhaps this is why we hear so many horror stories of people losing money in the markets, and thus assume - based on the media's sensationalization of these horror stories - that there is no way to beat the market.

We also are treated to a detailed 'how-to' plan in this book. Many people find certain investment books frustrating because the books either a) assume a knowledge base in the reader that is simply not present or b) use vague suggestions and testimonials but don't give solid advice. This is not one of those books. This is a great resource to get for yourself, and to share with your kids as an introduction to investing in the stock market. We all owe ourselves the joy of financial freedom, and this book will help us get there.