{"id":16580,"date":"2022-10-07T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T11:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/?p=16580"},"modified":"2024-06-06T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:41:53","slug":"top-five-personal-finance-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/top-five-personal-finance-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Personal Finance Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l8y7049h-9885383ed6a85b507161222da4fa292f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>Top Five Personal Finance Books<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-extra_large wp-image-22028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books-1500x995.jpg\" alt=\"Personal Finance Books\" width=\"1500\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books-1500x995.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books-1030x683.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books-705x468.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Personal-Finance-Books.jpg 1652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking to grow your financial knowledge? If you are looking to become better with your personal finance, a great way to start is by opening up a book. There are so many books out there today that can help you jump start your personal finance journey. In these books, money experts spill their secret of how to become financially successful and gain financial stability. Check out our top 5 books about personal finance below:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><em><b>I Will Teach You to Be Rich<\/b><\/em><b> by Ramit Sethi<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a great read if you are looking to answer questions about general finance. This book covers a lot of different financial topics. In this book by Ramit Sethi, you\u2019ll get tips about how to improve your credit card score, how to invest, and more. One topic this book covers is how to budget. <em>I Will Teach You to be Rich <\/em>lays out a great template for how to set up a budget. It also talks about how you can set up separate savings accounts for different things. This can help motivate you to save more money for a specific category.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><em><b>Rich Dad, Poor Dad<\/b><\/em><b>\u00a0by Robert T. Kiyosaki<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another great read is<em>\u00a0Rich Dad, Poor Dad<\/em>. This book explores the author\u2019s experience growing up with a father who was well educated but could never get ahead- otherwise known as his \u201cpoor dad\u201d. He refers to his \u201crich dad,\u201d as his friend\u2019s father. In the book, he compares what he learns about money from his \u201cpoor dad\u201d and his \u201crich dad.\u201d His friend\u2019s father understood the rules of money and later goes on to become one of the richest men in Hawaii.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the key takeaways from this book is to become wealthy, one needs to have more assets than liabilities. For example, a car is a liability, whereas a rental property is an asset. The author says that the wealthy learn to spend their earnings on things that are going to earn them more money. He compares this to the poor and middle class that tend to spend their money on liabilities, which are not going to earn them any more money in the long run. This is one of the best selling personal finance books of all time so make sure to add it to your reading list!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b><em>Four Hour Work Week<\/em>\u00a0by Timothy Ferriss<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are looking to earn more and work less, this might be the book for you. The <em>Four Hour Work Week<\/em>\u00a0forces you to look outside the typical 9-5 box we often place ourselves in. This book shows you that there are other options to earn income besides just this. It gives you a blueprint for creating passive streams of income and shows you how to become more efficient with your time and money. This book also tells how you can work efficiently to maximize your time, and it touches on how to become more productive.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b><em>The Money Tree<\/em>\u00a0by Chris Guillebeau<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Money Tree<\/em>\u00a0is another book that you need to add to your list. This is the author&#8217;s first fictional book. It follows the character Jake, who goes through his own individual personal finance journey. He talks about his strategies to establish something of his own. It looks at how he is able to make money on his various side hustles such as selling things on ebay like text books. This is a great read if you are looking for a fiction book with many money saving takeaways.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b><em>Think and Grow Rich<\/em>\u00a0by Napoleon Hill<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Think and Grow Rich<\/em>\u00a0by Napoleon Hill is another great read that breaks the stigma, \u201cit takes money to make money.\u201d The author, Napoleon Hill gathers interviews from some of the world&#8217;s most successful people to see how they made it where they are. What he finds is that there is more to becoming wealthy than what meets the eye. In order to become successful, you need to have drive and determination. The book also talks about the law of attraction and how people are able to manifest their wealth. The book truly shows that if you put your mind to it, you are able to see success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be sure to check out these books the next time you are wanting to learn more about your personal finances. There are many other books out there that offer a wealth of knowledge on this topic. As always, happy reading!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":22028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-helpful-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22023,"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions\/22023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.af247.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}