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(More customer reviews)In the Forward to Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt, author Tom Scott writes "...I'm urging a return to some basic principle such as living within your means, making sure you understand how money works and, most importantly, managing your financial expectations and emotions."
If some or all of this sounds familiar, it's probably because this is the same kind of plainspoken wisdom about money that your grandma was always so eager to share with you, but which you were probably just as eager to tune out. Coming from a certified financial professional, like Tom Scott, who has spent over 25 years in the trenches building and preserving his clients' fortunes, this kind of shopworn advice about how to get the most out of each dollar and cent you make takes on whole new dimensions of urgency.
Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt offers foolproof strategies for maximizing returns and minimizing losses and brooks none of the get-rich-quick gimmicks or slickster sales pitches that so many readers have come to expect from the likes of Jim Cramer, Suze Orman, Dave Ramsey, Robert Kiyosaki and a host of other, industry approved, financial gurus.
Tom Scott breaks ranks with the Wall Street crowd to unmask some of the most common ways that the so-called financial pros abuse investor confidence every day, whether through incompetence, neglect or out-and-out malfeasance. Time and again Tom Scott has proven himself to be a trustworthy investment "sherpa," or financial insider who actually has the clients' best interest at heart and is willing to go the distance to maintain and create wealth on their behalf.
Tom Scott is a different kind of broker; his message has a friendly, personal touch that is rarely seen in this kind of media. As a certified financial planner and well-known [...] contributor, Tom Scott has helped hundreds of investors plan for a secure and comfortable retirement. Now, with Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt, he is at it again, this time taking his message of prosperity through prudence and practical planning to a broader audience.
Fasten Your Financial Seatbelt is an inexpensive, informative, timely and delightfully readable little guidebook sure to impress and amuse the armchair brokers of the world or anyone else interested in knowing how to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to investing and planning for retirement!
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What does a horrific airline crash have to do with retirement planning? Thomas C. Scott saved a dozen lives as a crewmember on a Boeing 747 that crashed in 1974, killing 59 people. When he became a financial adviser he discovered that, like airline passengers who ignore preflight safety instructions, most people ignore the basics in handling their finances, make assumptions that are inaccurate, and leave themselves unprepared for disaster. This is the book you should have read before the global financial meltdown in 2008 and it is the book that will prepare you for the future by explaining how you can fasten your financial seatbelt. Tom Scott has taken what he learned about how we behave under stress and the common mistakes people make with their money and put it all together in this unique, inspiring, and personal look at how easily we can lose what we have when we forget to fasten our financial seatbelts. Scott's hard-earned insights include the value of planning and preparing for the worst. Like airline crashes, most of us think that financial disaster only happens to other people-until it happens to us. As in an airline crash, the survivors of a financial calamity are often paralyzed by fear and unable to see the way out of their predicament. Like flying, our relationship with money is often emotional and tinged with anxiety. It's important to have a trusted adviser on your side, protecting you from those human instincts that interfere with our ability to make good financial choices. Discover important principles that can change your financial life: *The ""rear-view mirror"" investment trap *The difference between investing and speculating *The ""plumage"" trap *Why a big salary is not wealth *How shame and guilt keep us from seeking help *How to find a good investment ""sherpa""
