5 New Nonfiction Books Help You Make More Money And Keep It Safe
Everyday Americans long believed people got ahead because they saw people getting ahead. Today, despite a chorus of voices saying you can’t, you can. You probably know someone who has. The truth is messier. It was hard. It still is hard, just not as hard as before. Challenging and doable are not mutually exclusive. Joseph Moore in “How To Get Rich In American History”
In a volatile economy where bad news dominates – e.g., retirement is unattainable, AI is dangerous – books that offer real-life success stories and how-to pathways are a helpful counterbalance. Here are five new nonfiction books to help you make more money and keep it safe:
1. How To Get Rich In American History By Joseph Moore
Life was not better in some bygone era. Your life, your time, your moment is among the best to be alive in human history. Carpe now Joseph Moore
How To Get Rich In American History is informative and inspiring in its optimism for how the everyday person can succeed economically. It includes specific suggestions covering investing, real estate and business on how people get rich. Though it’s a personal finance book written by a history professor, it’s laugh-out-loud funny and a fast, enjoyable read.
2. The Miracle Hour By Kelly Roach
It’s truly you against you every single day. We often get distracted by the things that makes us feel productive when the most important things are not the five-alarm fires that we think we need to put out in that very moment. There’s a big difference between feeling productive and being productive. Kelly Roach
If you’re an entrepreneur, The Miracle Hour belongs on your reference shelf when you need a sales primer. Roach breaks down how to productively spend your time on actions that actually impact revenue. Her review of potential sales leads – and how 4 of your 5 target customers are current or former customers – is particularly eye-opening.
3. The California Pizza Kitchen Story By Rick Rosenfield
Relationships – real ones – are what carry you through. In law, in business, in life, it’s the people you trust and respect who become your true compass. Rick Rosenfield
Books that take you behind-the-scenes in business and career help you make money with ideas and inspiration on how you can do it too. The California Pizza Kitchen Story is like two-books-in-one on this front. You get the story of how the business was founded, how the money was raised, how locations were selected, how hiring and other people challenges were solved, and how growth was handled. You also get a career change adventure story of how a former defense attorney with no culinary experience pulled this off.
4. The Retirement Answer By Dan Goldie
You don’t need to become a financial expert to have a successful retirement, but you do need to remain engaged. Dan Goldie
Once you’ve made some money and need to make it last through retirement, The Retirement Answer provides a good overview, whether you want to do it yourself or just be an informed participant with your financial advice team. Goldie is a former US tennis professional as well as longtime financial adviser, and he includes some interesting and helpful sports analogies to make his points. You don’t need to be a tennis fan, however, to appreciate the comprehensive and accessible approach Goldie takes to keeping you engaged in your retirement planning.
5. Spies, Lies And Cybercrime By Eric O’Neill
Measured as gross domestic product, the dark web generates enough cybercrime to make it the third largest economy on earth, exceeding both Germany and Japan combined. This represents the greatest transfer of wealth in world history, exceeds the global damage costs from natural disasters in a year, and is more profitable than global gains from the trade of all major illegal drugs combined. Eric O’Neill
Retirement planning is one way to keep more of your money, and protecting yourself from financial fraud is another important topic, which Spies, Lies and Cybercrime covers magnificently. O’Neill worked in FBI counterintelligence before founding a security services firm, and he shares multiple real-life examples of security breaches, as well as eye-opening cybercrime statistics and trends. More importantly, the book includes what the everyday person can do to protect themselves from online fraud.
This article was originally published on Forbes.com
