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Teen authors The Beatty Brothers offer an account of common financial insecurities in their inspirational how-to, Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks. Heeding their parents advice, David, Devin, and Deric Beatty have spent their childhood and adolescent years pulling weeds for extra cash, preparing and presenting marketing strategies, picking stocks, and investing in their future. Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks includes their easy-to-follow tips for being rich at fifteen, thirteen, and seven, such as budget worksheets, work ethics, asset liability evaluation, and tithing. No matter what age, you can follow these practical guidelines to make cents of the change in your life..
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It takes only a few high-quality stocks for a stock portfolio to make the big money. Finding winning stocks is a skill that any serious investor can learn, says Fred Kobrick, veteran stock picker and legendary mutual-fund manager. In The Big Money, Kobrick draws on a lifetime of investing experience to show how he identified four qualities that reliably predict which companies will thrive and grow, producing outsize stock returns.

Kobrick explains how the four qualities of winning companies -- business model, assumptions, strategy, and management (known collectively as BASM) -- are a touchstone for successful investors. They are the key to repeatability, the ability to keep producing success. BASM is important for blue-chip and young companies alike.

Once investors have identified companies with great potential, Kobrick shows them how to use his Seven Steps to financial success to manage their portfolios. All of these principles are embedded in Kobrick's insightful and often entertaining anecdotes.

The Big Money is a book no serious investor can afford to be without.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the bestselling authors of The Motley Fool Investment Guide and its successful, savvy prequel, The Motley Fool's You Have More Than You Think, here's an engaging, humorous, and practical stock-picking guide, packed with Foolish insights, that caps off this invaluable personal finance trilogy from David and Tom Gardner.

The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers presents the sophisticated, yet easy-to-understand stock-picking methods that have kept the Motley Fool portfolio beating the Standard & Poor's averages by more than 30 percent. The key is investing in small start-up companies that have historically offered the greatest investment returns (the "rule breakers") as well as huge companies that maintain legal monopolies in their fields (the "rule makers"). The Gardner brothers explain

* How to identify the best investments in today's public markets: the rule breakers and the rule makers

* The definition of a "tweener" -- a maturing rule breaker -- and how to detect the Tweener Death Rattle

* When to buy and when to sell, and how to manage your portfolio on a regular basis

In their first two books, the Fools got you started in investing and freed you from the fees and worries that Wall Street's Wise Men have been imposing on investors for decades. Now, by sharing their methods for picking rule breakers and rule makers, they guide you through a stock market that has seen company valuations soar to unprecedented heights and that promises to continue providing roller-coaster thrills. The Motley Fools are the ultimate companions to bring along for a safe, fun, and profitable ride..
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Outsmarting Wall Street brings to light one of the simplest and most sensible strategies for picking stocks ever devised In the third edition of this investment classic, the author unveils new approaches to selecting income-paying stocks, mutual funds, and stocks to short. Specific topics include: Why patience and discipline are critical to investment success; Rules for conservative and aggressive investing; How to identify long-term growth stocks; Why technology stocks offer great opportunities; When to buy and sell..
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The Possibilities Are Staggering:

• Had you invested $10,000 in Cisco Systems back in early 1990, your investment would now be worth $3,650,000

• Similarly, a $10,000 investment made in Microsoft in 1986 would be valued at more than $4,721,000 today

• $10,000 invested in Yahoo! in 1996 would today be worth $317,000

How do you get in on those deals--especially if you're not a Silicon Valley insider? How do you buy the high-tech win-ners and avoid the losers? How do you find the Yahoo!s, Microsofts, and Ciscos of tomorrow?

The answers are here, in this newly revised edition of the national bestseller The Gorilla Game. The book reveals the dynamics driving the market for high-tech stocks and out-lines the forces that catapult a select number of compa-nies to "gorilla" status--dominating the markets they serve in the way that Yahoo! dominates internet portals, Microsoft dominates software operating systems, and Cisco dominates hardware for data networks.

Follow the rules of The Gorilla Game and you will learn how to identify and invest in the "gorilla candidates" early on--while they are still fighting for dominance, and while their stocks are still cheap. When the dust clears and one company clearly attains leadership in its market, you'll reap the enormous returns that foresighted investors in high-tech companies deserve.

This new edition of The Gorilla Game has been updated and revised throughout, with new focus and new insights into choosing the internet gorillas--the companies that are destined to dominate internet commerce.

Bestselling author Geoffrey A. Moore is one of the world's leading consultants in high-tech marketing strategy. Here you'll find his groundbreaking ideas about tech-nology markets that made his previous books bestsellers, combined with the work of Paul Johnson, a top Wall Street technology analyst, and Tom Kippola, a high-tech consul-tant and highly successful private investor. Together they have discovered and played the gorilla game and now give readers the real rules for winning in the world of high-tech investing.

Step by step you'll learn how to spot a high-tech market that is about to undergo rapid growth and development, how to identify and spread investments across the potential gorillas within the market, and how to narrow your investments to the single, emerging leader--the gorilla--as the market matures.

High-tech investing can be extremely risky, but investors who learn to play the gorilla game can avoid many of the traps and pitfalls and instead start capitalizing on untold profits. Personal wealth is only a gorilla game away.

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The Unofficial Guide to Picking Stocks is your guide to help you jump into the world of stock investing. Expert author Paul Mladjenovic takes you through the investment process while providing explanations to make sure you understand why you should invest in stocks, how to manage your stock portfolio, and what exactly makes up what is known as a ìhotî stock. The book will also discuss what else you should take into consideration when creating your investment portfolio with tips on avoiding fraud, evaluating brokers, and sorting through the vast array of online investing opportunities..
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From reading "The Wall Street Journal" or an annual report to choosing a financial advisor and selecting stocks, this book explains it all. Readers will also find answers to the 25 most asked questions of the Beardstown Ladies, how to use the internet for investing, and all new information on how to adjust your financial portfolio based on the new Dow Jones. This is the perfect book for investors--beginners and otherwise--and the millions of investment club members..
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Written by the founders of the Motley Fool US, "Rule Breakers, Rule Makers" contains two investment approaches. Rule Breakers are companies which take their businesses by storm, breaking all the industry conventions and changing the rules of the game. Recent Rule Breakers include America Online or amazon.com; Rule Makers are companies which offer the opportunity to make huge amounts of money over time. These include Coco-Cola, General Electric, Microsoft and Gap. The Gardner brothers apply these approaches to their own market-crushing portfolios which they manage publically on their Web site. The book includes an opening chapter by Chief European Fool David Berger which explains exactly how to apply the book's approach to British shares, and how to invest in the USA..
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