Die Broke
A Radical Four-part Financial Plan
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 23, 1998
From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice.
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- Who it’s for
- A provocative financial plan questions the usual scripts for work, spending, retirement, and security.
- Themes
- Personal finance, Work and career choices, Retirement and financial security
- Genres
- Managing Your Money, Retirement Planning, Budgeting
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From America's most trusted financial advisor comes a comprehensive guide to a new and utterly sane financial choice. In Die Broke, you'll learn that life is a game where the loser gives his money to Uncle Sam at the end. There are four steps to the process: Quit Today No, don't tell your boss to shove it...at least not out loud. But in your head accept that from this day on you're a free agent whose number one workplace priority is your personal bottom line.
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Pay Cash You should be as conscious of spending as you are of saving. Credit should be a rarely used tool for those few times (buying homes and cars) when paying cash is impossible. Don't Retire Your work life should be a journey up and down hills, rather than a climb up a sheer cliff that ends with a jump into the abyss. Die Broke It sounds terrifying, the one intolerable outcome to your financial life. And yet, in truth, dying broke might be your best option for a life without fear: fear of failure and privation now, fear of impoverishment in the long run.
Money on Your Terms
A provocative financial plan questions the usual scripts for work, spending, retirement, and security.
Come here for
- A fresh angle on cash, credit, and your personal bottom line
- A rethink of retirement as a journey, not a finish line
Expect
- Four plainspoken steps, from quitting today to dying broke
- A focus on spending consciously as well as saving
Where it sits
| Managing Your Money | 48% |
|---|---|
| Budgeting | 39% |
| Retirement Planning | 24% |
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Publisher categories
- Budgeting
- Finance
- Financial Risk Management
- Investing (Personal)
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- Managing Your Money
- Retirement Planning
- Personal Success
- Authors
- Stephen Pollan, Mark Levine
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 23, 1998
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Personal finance · Work and career choices · Retirement and financial security
- Reading lane
- Budgeting