Praise for Go Green, Live Rich
Great news: there is no green premium! By demonstrating how going green can fit any budget, David Bach shows that good environmental and financial decisions go hand-in-hand. Go Green, Live Rich gives great tips, useful to everyone, about how to save money and the planet at once.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Go Green, Live Rich is as much about saving money as it is about preserving our world of natural wonders for future generations. This is the rich-green-book of a promising tomorrow.
Matthew Modine, Founder: Bicycle for a Day
Praise for The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner
[Bach's] cheery, can-do message cuts through the intimidating challenge of buying a house for the first-timer for a newcomer, it's fundamental reading.
USA Today
If you read only one real estate book this year, it should be The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner This is one of the few real estate books that cannot be recommended too highly for both beginners and experienced homeowners.
Robert J. Bruss, Miami Herald
Praise for Start Late, Finish Rich
Financial wizard David Bach's new book, Start Late, Finish Rich, offers solid advice for getting our finances in order, no matter how old we are.
AARP
With feel-good sensibilities, David Bach delivers levelheaded strategies for reaching financial goals. Bach's clever approach will make readers feel as if they're having a one-on-one conversation with a friendly personal financial counselor. Powerful, poignant and pleasing, Start Late, Finish Rich can't be read fast enough.
Bookpage
Praise for The Automatic Millionaire
The Automatic Millionaire is an automatic winner. David Bach really cares about you: on every page you can hear him cheering you on to financial fitness. No matter who you are or what your income is, you can benefit from this easy-to-apply program. Do it now. You and your loved ones deserve big bucks!
Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager
The Automatic Millionaire gives you, step by step, everything you need to secure your financial future. When you do it David Bach's way, failure is not an option.
Jean Chatzky, Financial Editor, NBC's Today
The Automatic Millionaire proves that you don't have to make a lot of money or have a complicated financial plan to get startedyou can literally start toward your financial dreams today, in a matter of hours, with just one life-changing secret: Pay yourself first and make it automatic! Equally important, this book shows you how to simplify and automate your entire financial life.
Harry S. Dent, Jr., investment strategist and author of The Roaring 2000s
Praise for Smart Couples Finish Rich
Smart Couples Finish Rich teaches women and men to work together as a team when it comes to money. Bach's nine steps are powerful, yet easy to understand and fun to implement. The entire family can benefit from this great book.
Robert T. Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad
I know how hard it is to make a personal-finance book user-friendly. Bach has done it. Smart Couples Finish Rich picks up where Smart Women Finish Rich left off. This is an easy, lively read filled with tips that made me smile and at least once made me laugh.
USA Weekend
David Bach offers a prescription both to avoid money conflicts and to plan a harmonious future together. The bottom line is action, and Bach's chatty writing style helps motivate you to that end.
BusinessWeek
Praise for Smart Women Finish Rich
Inspires women to start planning today for a secure financial future. Every woman can benefit from this book. Bach is an excellent money coach.
John Gray, bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
David Bach is the one expert to listen to when you're intimidated by your finances. His easy-to-understand program will show you how to afford your dreams.
Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power
[David] Bach gets across some complicated stuff: how to organize a portfolio, keep the taxman at bay, invest in yourself, and earn more, all of which makes this book one of the best overall.
Working Woman
Also by David Bach
Smart Women Finish Rich
Smart Couples Finish Rich
The Finish Rich Workbook
The Finish Rich Dictionary
The Automatic Millionaire
The Automatic Millionaire Workbook
Start Late, Finish Rich
The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner
Go Green, Live Rich
To my son. Jack Bach
you are the best thing that ever happened in my life.
I love you more than the whole world!
CONTENTS
FIGHT FOR YOUR MONEY A-Z
Introduction
Why Fight for Your Money?
You hold in your hands a book that could change the way you think about and deal with money from this day forward for the rest of your life.
That's a pretty major statement, because virtually everything you do every day of your life has something to do with money. Think about it. What are the odds that you will go the next 24 hours without spending any money? What are the odds that you will go another five minutes?
And don't think, just because you're not taking out your wallet and forking over a few dollars for something, that you're not spending. Are the lights on as you read this? Is there a cell phone in your pocket? Do you own or rent a place to live? Are you covered by insurance of any kind?
I thought so. Just sitting there, you're spending money. And the unpleasant truth is that though you may not realize it, you are spending too much.
Everything You Do Every Day That Involves Money Is a Battle
The great truth about money is that in order to keep it and grow it, you have to fight for it. For years, I have said that it doesn't matter what you earn, it is what you keep that determines whether you will be financially free. Yet each year our money has become harder and harder to keep. That's because, at every turn, the companies we deal with every day in every aspect of our lives are working as hard as they can to take as much money from us as they can.
Whether you realize it or not, we are all engaged in a never-ending battle with giant corporations and economic institutions whose only goal is to separate us from our hard-earned dollars.
This is a battle we consumers have been losing because they are better equipped to take our money than we are to keep it.
Lose the Battle and You Lose the War
Think about it. We live in a world now where even once-respectable institutions like banks and brokerage houses, insurance companies and hospitals, no longer seem to have any scruples about how they accomplish the task of separating us from our money. And whether you let them do that will ultimately make a huge difference in the way you live.