Beth Kobliner - Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

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GET A FINANCIAL LIFE

This is a must read for anyone in their twenties or thirties hoping to have a shot at using their hard-earned money to get ahead financially. It will give you an easy-to-use framework for managing your money, along with countless lessons for avoiding costly mistakes and saving money. Best of all, its easy reading.

Matt Fellowes, founder of HelloWallet

This is the book I wish Id read when I was just out of college. Filled with life-altering financial lessons, this new edition of Get a Financial Life reinvents the money guide for a new generation.

Farnoosh Torabi, financial expert and host of the award-winning podcast So Money

Kobliner provides concise but comprehensive solutions to the biggest financial issues facing young people today. This guide is just what millennials need to fix their finances, especially since personal finance is a subject far too many schools fail to teach.

Scott Gamm, correspondent for TheStreet.com and author of More Money, Please

One of the best guides to help young people get a handle on money matters.

Burton G. Malkiel, Chemical Bank Chairmans Professor of Economics Emeritus, Princeton University; author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Beth Kobliners book provides a much-needed and sensible guide.

Paul A. Volcker, former chairman, Federal Reserve Board

Beths book packs a punch of practical advice. It speaks the language of young professionals and students without dumbing down crucial concepts. Definitely a must read for any young person looking to get an edge on life.

Ted Gonder, cofounder and CEO of Moneythink

A highly readable and substantial guide to the grown-up worlds of money and business.... Backed up by bibliographies, source lists, and useful phone numbers, this book could be tucked into one of those ubiquitous backpacks to guide novices through the thickets of apartment rentals, mortgage applications, taxes, and more. Its strength is in explaining both the principles and the practicalities involved in each chunk of the landscape.

The New York Times

If youre saddled with student loan debt from years in college and want tips on how to pay it down effectively, need to understand the basics of things like health insurance and why you get bills even though your insurer pays for other things, and dont see how its at all possible to save for a home of your own someday, this book is for you.

Lifehacker.com

Shaw said youth is wasted on the young. I suspect the Kobliner financial wisdoms will work out well at all our ages.

Paul A. Samuelson, Institute Professor Emeritus, MIT; Nobel laureate in economics

Kobliners done it again! Get a Financial Life gives clear and straightforward advice on how to manage your moneyeven in a financial meltdown. A must read for twenty- and thirty-somethings who want to be fiscally smart and financially secure.

Soledad OBrien, TV news anchor

Get a Financial Life gives you the essential information you need to get your finances in order as youre starting your career. The rest is up to you. Educate yourself, get motivated, and get your finances in shape now by reading this book.

Sharon Epperson, personal finance correspondent, CNBC

Smart, thorougha tremendously useful guide to all the essentials of sound personal finance.

Fortune

A daring book... A lifes worth of smart financial advice.

Newsweek

With numerous insights, this fine book demonstrates that, through discipline and enterprise, anyone can win their financial independence.

Tom Gardner, cofounder of The Motley Fool

Beth Kobliner is telling you its time to smell the latte. In Get a Financial Life , Kobliner serves a rich, smooth brew of common sense on everything from paying off your student loans to saving for (gasp) your future. The advice is thoughtful, precise, and up-to-date. But the simple, step-by-step explanations make getting a financial life easier than steaming the perfect froth on a cappuccino.

Saul Hansell, business reporter, The New York Times

An eminently digestible resource. Buying this book right now is probably one of the bestand cheapestinvestments.

Time Out New York

Get it. Read it. Reference it often.

Kiplingers

Get a Financial Life is a great option for a young, analytical, and thoughtful personit doesnt just cram a conclusion down your throat, but explains options in a clear and reasonable way.

TheSimpleDollar.com

This was the book I had been waiting for; everything you need to know about saving, budgeting, credit cards, debt, insurance, owning a home, and much more is in this book.

Cara Newman, YoungMoney.com

Sometimes the very best books are the simplest. And thats the beauty of Get a Financial Life.... It offers the fundamental ABCs of how to manage your money.... Kobliners book is a gentle guide, carefully walking her money neophytes through the nuts and bolts of personal finance. Theres no magic formula for taking control of your financial life here, but rather frank meat-and-potatoes money-management moves that have stood the test of time.

USA Today

Informative, laden with sound advice, and attractively packaged with charts and lists, this small book is ideal for anyone needing a primer on personal finance.

The Christian Science Monitor

Beth Kobliner has written one of the best personal finance books currently available. Get a Financial Life is must reading for young adultsand has a lot of solid information for the forty-and-over crowd as well.

The Midwest Book Review

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