Your Money Or Your Life is a cornerstone of the personal finance genre despite its atrocious title. It was written in 1992 and has influenced millions of people since.
It gives a 9-step process so readers can focus on distinct elements of their financial life independently from one another.
There are two main storylines.
One: Where Jack comes out of third-stage syphilis delirium and leads a diverse rascal band of former galley slaves on a wild quest to steal a boat-load of silver, then return with it back to Europe via the Pacific.
And Two: Where Eliza faces her own troubles in the French court of Louis XIV at Versailles.
Whatever your stage of life, it won’t hurt to pay attention to money, the ways to preserve it, and the ways to make it grow.
It will be even more useful if you start early, but not everyone has this liberty. In any case, here are my picks for the 5 Best Books about Finance.
Quicksilver is the first of three books of the Baroque Cycle trilogy, and it’s also three independent books in one. It follows the lives of three fictional characters interwoven with real figures from the 17th century such as Louis XIV, Isaac Newton, and Leibniz.
Anyone who knows me well knows I’m passionate about money. It’s not the money per se that interests me, it’s the idea of freedom and choice that having it represents. I haven’t always been this way – though saving money has always been easy for me.
Here are my 6 essentials for money management.