The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times

by Jean Chatzky Narrated by Susan Denaker

Overview

What's the difference between you and Warren Buffett? Between you and your boss? Or between you and your successful neighbor? What do the financially comfortable have that you don't? It's not that those people were born into money, caught a lucky break, or have an Ivy League education. It's not even that they are smarter than you or make more money than you do each year. So what do they have that you don't . . . at least not yet? What's The Difference?

Trusted financial coach Jean Chatzky shares the secrets her groundbreaking research of the self-made wealthy has uncovered so that anyone can break through the barriers that stand between them and true financial freedom.

Editorial Reviews

When queried about what is the difference between a successful entrepreneur and an Average Joe, most people cite education, luck, family wealth, or just good genes. Make Money, Not Excuses author Jean Chatzky thinks that all those answers are just copouts. This talented motivational speaker insists that prosperity is a talent that anyone can develop, and she has the paperwork to prove it: The Difference draws on candid interviews and studies of the traits and habits of more than 5,000 people.

Publishers Weekly

Chatzky (Make Money, Not Excuses) identifies the attitudes, financial and nonfinancial behaviors, personalities and goals that separate the haves from the have-nots. The author categorizes the new economic strata into four groups (the wealthy, the financially comfortable, the paycheck-to-paychecks and the further-in-debtors) and waxes ecstatic on the virtues and natural gifts of the rich: their many friends, uncanny intuition and philanthropy. Her adoration may cloy and many of her claims are impossible to prove (wealthy people are more resilient in their personal lives), but her practical advice is sound and well worth taking. With exercises, tests and challenges, she invites readers to become financially fluent, stressing the power of saving and investing appropriately and aggressively. Fluffier sections address the importance of finding one's passion and overcoming obstacles, while throughout the book she highlights "habits that help" and "habits that hurt." This book will appeal to Chatzky fans and will earn her an even larger following. (Mar.)

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940172135859
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	03/10/2009
Edition description:	Unabridged

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