Growing a Fortune: Twelve Investment Secrets to Financial Prosperity

by Bechtel, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9781570717741
• ISBN10: 1570717745
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc

Summary

This charming, wise book imparts to the reader a simple, reliable, time-tested plan to dramatically multiply money. Along the way the book shares a number of down-to-earth principles, and a few thoughts about gardening, spirituality and life.

Author Biography

Stefan Bechtel has been a successful investor, and a devoted gardener, for more than fifteen years. His favorite flowers are clematis, bearded iris and lilies of almost any kind. He is a founding editor of Men's Health magazine and president of the Dreaming Hand Foundation

Table of Contents

Springtime and Planting
Investing, like gardening, is all about mastering the mysteries of time	13	(24)
Spend a long, long time preparing the soil and selecting a viable seed	37	(30)
Choose an investing style that suits your own personal microclimate-your ``psychological gardening zone.''	67	(10)
You have to have a seed in the ground in order to catch the growth spurts	77	(12)
Summertime
Create a ``Dow garden'' and put a chair in it	89	(18)
Droughts are inevitable-but eventually, it always rains	107	(18)
You're a gardener, not a farmer-so gardening should be a hobby, not a full-time pursuit	125	(8)
Prudent pruning makes plants prosper	133	(12)
Autumn and Harvest
There's a time for everything under heaven, including the harvest	145	(12)
Don't eat your seed corn	157	(6)
Since they are both essentially unknowable, the proper attitude toward the natural world, and the stock market, is one of humble awe	163	(12)
Know thy garden, know thyself	175