tashina wrote:...truly deserves it's own post.
I just love the first sentence...so humble, so self-effacing, so very Hocus-like.
Rob Bennett has helped tens of thousands of middle class workers win financial freedom early in life.
How do you think he's compiling those statistics?
Also mentions the days of the Soapbox report and says about himself:
...his discussion board was often hailed as one of the most thought provoking on the internet.
Which discussion board was his?
You know, in the acknowledgements, I am suprised he didn't thank himself for being such an amazing guy.
The book arrived today. I thought I'd go back and read tashina's threads to see if there was anything she already covered. That inside back cover really struck me, too.
And inside the front cover, hocus has excerpts from a few chapters. This one is wierd . . .
An individual using a budget to plan for his old-age retirement is like an entrepreneur using a budget to plan for the day he goes out of business. --Chapter Ten
This one is wierd, too . . .
Spending is the road to wealth. Everyone knows it too. We don't talk about it much because the conventional money management approach urges us to rein in spending and so it has become taboo to openly acknowledge how great a value proposition spending offers. --Chapter Four
And on the page that usually says something like this, "To my loving wife who's given me support to write this book." Hocus instead writes . . .
To the kind and generous soulful and passionate Sisters of Saint Joseph,
who taught with love at Saint Timothy's Parish parochial school in Northeast Philadelphia in the 1960's,
for seeing to it that I learned the basics of English grammer at a time in my life when I did not view it as a particularly strong value proposition to invest the time needed to do so
