The Road to Wealth

By: Suze Orman

Narrated by: Suze Orman

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

Her #1 best sellers The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and The Courage to Be Rich changed the very way Americans think about money and earned Suze Orman an unrivaled reputation as the country's most trusted and insightful financial expert. These books, in identifying the emotional roadblocks to financial freedom, proved that Orman has a unique grasp of the role money plays in our lives, as well as the gift of timing: she tells us exactly what we need to know, precisely when we need to know it. Now with this new audio, Orman delivers a message that once again is right on time. An audio designed to help us take action and overcome the obstacle of confusion, The Road to Wealth provides us with the practical answers to questions we have been asking - or should have been asking: sound, straightforward, fiercely honest, and easy-to-understand advice on the financial topics that most affect our lives. Here is the information that points us in the right direction and erases the uncertainty that can often cost us precious time and money.

From creating a strong, debt-free foundation to amassing assets and protecting them in periods of economic downturn; from buying a home to providing for loved ones; from investing with confidence and navigating the markets in good times and bad to securing reliable income for our later years, The Road to Wealth offers invaluable insight and information wherever we are in our lives, whatever our needs, whatever the economic climate.

©2001 Suze Orman (P)2001 Random House, Inc., Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing Group, a Division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"[The Road to Wealth] ought to be essential listening for anyone who is serious about life and wants to manage money better." (AudioFile)

"Suze has managed to do for money what Trading Spaces did for design and Top Chef did for food - make it accessible and entertaining. She's...intelligent, articulate, sassy...a blast to be around." (Entertainment Weekly)

"The most comprehensive of her works and...the most useful as a reference." (The New York Times)

"The reigning shaman and high priestess of personal finance." (The San Francisco Examiner)

If you like FAQ's, you'll love this!!

The content is generally very good, but the format is "question and answer." This book reads like a FAQ (read aloud), rather than a systematic development of wealth-building strategies. The print version would be easier to navigate, in that one could go directly to the subject of interest and see if their question was already asked/answered by Orman. If not, you're out of luck! Even the print version would only serve most readers as a look-up reference, rather than a "study cover-to-cover" type of financial book. If anyone else had written this book, one star would have been generous. However, Orman's insights are valuable, if not mainstream.

OK I guess

If you don't know anything this book would be usefull, but I got bored with it. I wouldn't say it's useless because it did have bits of info at places. Don't read if you are sleepy!

great all around financial advice

Suze Orman covers a bunch of areas in this book. While for some it might be hard to listen to some of the minutiae that is a part of good financial planning, Suze does a good job of entertaining while informing. Get it. It's worth the reading.

Great info

Great information if you want to understand basics of investing avenues, and how to best distribute wealth upon your death. As this book was rewritten in 2001, there is outdated information (cd-roms, World Wide Web, $ limits for investing and tax breaks) that would be nice to have been updated.