Safely Prosperous or Really Rich: Choosing Your Personal Financial Heaven

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Praise for SAFELY PROSPEROUS or REALLY RICH?

"Howard's brilliant concept that the roads to Prosperity and Riches are very different is very liberating. In most financial books, the author would never do what Howard has done–recount with unflinching honesty the big financial mistakes he and his subscribers have made over the years so readers can avoid the same stumbling blocks and pitfalls. Only a very secure man would have the guts to do that."
–Robert Allen author of Multiple Streams of Income and Nothing Down

"Howard Ruff is back, offering a wealth of powerful new financial advice for America's middle class. In his new manual, Safely Prosperous or ...

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Praise for SAFELY PROSPEROUS or REALLY RICH?

"Howard's brilliant concept that the roads to Prosperity and Riches are very different is very liberating. In most financial books, the author would never do what Howard has done–recount with unflinching honesty the big financial mistakes he and his subscribers have made over the years so readers can avoid the same stumbling blocks and pitfalls. Only a very secure man would have the guts to do that."
–Robert Allen author of Multiple Streams of Income and Nothing Down

"Howard Ruff is back, offering a wealth of powerful new financial advice for America's middle class. In his new manual, Safely Prosperous or Really Rich?, he challenges you to choose between two roads. The older I get, the more I favor 'Safely Prosperous,' but you make the call. I also love Howard's old-fashioned moral perspectives on money."
–Mark Skousen editor of Forecasts and Strategies

"Safely Prosperous or Really Rich? is destined to be one of the most influential books of the early twenty-first century, just as his mega bestseller, How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, changed millions of lives in the late '70s. Welcome back, Howard."
–John Mauldin author of Bull's Eye Investing

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780471652830
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/16/2004
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 0.96 (d)

Meet the Author

Howard Ruff has had a long career as a financial publisher and author. The Ruff Times has had more than six hundred thousand subscribers over the last quarter century. Ruff is the author of seven books, including the bestselling How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, which sold almost three million copies and appeared near the top of the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years. Ruff has hosted his own syndicated radio and TV programs in more than 300 markets and has appeared on nearly every national TV program, including the Today show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Nightline.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Introduction 1
Book I The Safe Road to Prosperity 21
Section I The Dumb Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes with Their Money 23
1 Two Tracks, Two Heavens 25
2 Worshipping Mammon 37
3 The Alien in Your Chest 53
4 The Great American Lie 73
5 How to Prosper by Earning 15 Percent in a 1-Percent World 101
6 Social Security, the Ponzi Chain Letter 105
Section II Blowing Your Money in the Investment Markets: The Turnpike to Financial Hell 117
7 Listening to Wall Street 119
8 The Bigger-Fool Theory of Investing 125
9 Worshipping the Golden Calf 135
10 The Financial Death Wish 143
11 Buying On Margin 149
12 Thinking the Unthinkable 153
Book II The Secrets of the Rich--The Most Important Things Rich People Always Do 163
13 Surprising Ways Rich People Get Rich with Leverage 165
14 Getting Rich by Banishing Fear 173
15 The Rich Person's Mind-set 185
16 Financial Winners in Bad Times 199
17 The Capitalist Manifesto: Creating Wealth Out of Thin Air 205
18 Getting Rich by Investing in Start-ups 223
19 Marketing 233
20 Was It Worth It? 241
Appendix A The Ruff Times Newsletter 245
Appendix B Recommended Vendors 251
Index 257

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 21, 2006

    Howard J Ruff or Chicken Little ?

    Howard J Ruff counts on the fears of people to sell his books. Also Ruff knows that you most likely have not read his 1979 clasic that stated the USA would see long lasting inflation, wide spred black market activity and a collaps of the financial system in the 1980'S !!! This is the author that advised in 1979 to commit a fixed portion of your income each month to a stockpile of consumer goods: amunition, tools, food, also bone up on your survival skills. Fast-forward to 1999 and a new book timed on the Y2K 'crisis'. Again Ruff takes advantage of the fears of the day to sell high priced doomsayer advice. It is up to the reader to decide the validity of these books however the works of Howard J Ruff should be read as a novel rather than financial advice.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 21, 2004

    Highly Recommended!

    This book offers a somewhat rambling compendium of solid (if unoriginal) investment advice. Author Howard Ruff's strength is his blunt, straightforward, unpretentious style. He covers a great deal of ground, discussing everything from the advisability of investing in gold to the principles of life and time management. Many readers will no doubt find this both useful and refreshing. Others will look for more depth ¿ and the author obliges by including appendices with sources of additional information on various topics. We suggest this book to those who are new at financial planning and who lust for wealth, but are willing to settle for prosperity. And safety. And sound investing.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 4, 2004

    Ruff information is more of an advertisement

    The information that is presented in the book is to general and most of the information presented is well know by most people today. To much self promotion & promotion of others in this book. In my opinion the book should had been classified as a magazine. Since in a magazine you known you get promotions and advertisements. Overall, do not buy the book put the money your going to spend into a savings account since you will earn more from it that way.

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