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Leadership Library Spotlight
by on Feb 12th, 2010 at 2:38 am
Book: Financial Peace Revisited
Author: Dave Ramsey
"Our entire nation is in financial stress at the individual level, at the city level, and state level, and at the national level…. I intend for this chapter … to get you mad. I want you mad enough to change your life and mad enough to change your children’s lives – and mabye even mad enough to change your city or your country."
- Dave Ramsey, p. 13
This book cost me $35,000 and it remains one of the best bargains in my entire library.
I grew up with very little financial literacy and discovered the hard way that most of my financial counselors (friends of the same age) were equally ignorant of how true wealth was acquired. I don’t blame my friends. We were not taught personal finance in high school or college beyond the level of understanding how to balance a checkbook, embracing the “value” of taking on student loans, and how to keep a establish a good credit score (which is impossible without first adding debt to your portfolio). We were all doomed and too blind to the realities of money to know it.
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Leadership Library Spotlight
by on Feb 19th, 2010 at 12:50 am
Book: The Treasure Principle: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving
Author: Randy Alcorn
"You can’t take it with you, but you can send it on ahead."
- Randy Alcorn, p. 18
What would you do if you were presented with a situation in which doing the right thing would cost you your professional career and ability to provide for your family? Would you do the right thing? We all would like to think that we would, but Randy Alcorn has already shown us his answer.
At the height of his career as a pastor and author, his involvement in a peaceful protest against an abortion clinic landed him in court and liable for a fine of more than $8 million (that was in 1990 currency). If he paid the money, he knew that it would go directly to funding abortions. If he didn’t pay the money, his church could be liable and jail might have been a possibility (not to mention the loss of his home, his savings, and his royalties from writing).