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Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business Paperback – 25 January 1996

by Peter Lynch (Author), John Rothchild (Author)

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Mutual-fund superstar Peter Lynch and author John Rothchild explain the basic principles of the stock market and business in an investing guide that will enlighten and entertain anyone who is high-school age or older.

Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing―the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market―aren’t taught in school. At a time when individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic education in investing can have tragic consequences.

For those who know what to look for, investment opportunities are everywhere. The average high-school student is familiar with Nike, Reebok, McDonald’s, the Gap, and the Body Shop. Nearly every teenager in America drinks Coke or Pepsi, but only a very few own shares in either company or even understand how to buy them. Every student studies American history, but few realize that our country was settled by European colonists financed by public companies in England and Holland―and the basic principles behind public companies haven’t changed in more than three hundred years.

In Learn to Earn, Lynch and Rothchild explain in a style accessible to anyone who is high-school age or older how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market. They explain not only how to invest, but also how to think like an investor.

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Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 0684811634
ISBN-13 : 978-0684811635

Best Sellers Rank: 25,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 246 in Personal Finance
- 397 in Professional Investments & Securities
- 572 in Business Economics

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Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing - the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market - aren't taught in school. At a time when individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic education in investing can have tragic consequences. In Learn to Earn, Lynch and Rothchild explain in a style accessible to anyone who is high-school age or older how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market. They explain not only how to invest, but also how to think like an investor.

About the Author

Peter Lynch managed the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990 when it was one of the most successful mutual-funds of all time. He then became a vice chairman at Fidelity and more recently has become a prominent philanthropist particularly active in the Boston area. His books include One Up on Wall Street, Beating the Street, and Learn to Earn (all written with John Rothchild).

John Rothchild was formerly a financial columnist for Time and Fortune magazines.

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Cristher

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This book is really easy to read although is very deep and powerfull and I enjoyed a lot. In some of the pages he says something like no matter your condition, race, you can own a share indiscriminately so it was really touching for me. I read a lot of compliments in the reviews asking for something more for the "advanced" investor and that this is so basic for them, and maybe they're looking for some magic complex mathematical formula that will tell them what to do. I was born in the 90s so I do no have much experience on the industry,. I am a beginner and the cover of the book says beginners guide, maybe is why I enjoyed the book , but sometimes I found that the greatest people tend to tell in the simples ways and common tend to make things complicated. Thank you Peter and you have a really nice tie.

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DANICA ESPINOZA

PERFECT FOR BEGINNERS

11 August 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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perfect book for beginners knowing NOTHING. I'm a physical therapist and know nothing about investing. This book helped me learn the basic and the important lessons to learn. Other books teach you how to invest right away. This book studies the whole investing process first and makes you familiar with all the terms necessary in investing.

14 people found this helpful

Robert L. Cochran

A Good Book For Young Potential Investors.

4 April 1999 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book is clearly geared towards young readers, not adults who are looking at investing seriously for the first time.
If your teenaged child is open to it, why not do precisely what this book suggests -- the two of you could join an investment club and learn about investing together. You could buy stock as custodian for your child each time the club meets. If you attend the meetings together it will rapidly teach your child the wisdom of saving and investing.
This book is marginally useful for adults. I bought 2 copies with the intention of giving one to my elder daughter and learning a bit about investing myself from the second. My 401K plan is doing so well I would like to start investing on my own.
There is too much history for adults looking to start investing. It ought to be replaced with more how-to advice -- such as how to read a balance sheet. There is an appendix chapter on this, but it could be greatly expanded.
The book could use updating on internet resources of use to investors. For example, I'd like to find software that will help me manage and track stock picks as I begin the training part which is so important to successful investing. Andrew Tobias' Managing Your Money used to have an excellent stock portfolio manager. I'd love to see something like this again which can automatically update portfolios with closing prices. I'm sure there is software out there -- but the book doesn't point out good software titles!
In short, this 5-year old book is a useful introduction geared for young readers. Adults already interested in investing can check it for useful advice. It badly needs updating to reflect investing now in the last year of the decade. Perhaps revisions could be posted to the web in addition to selling a revised print version.

75 people found this helpful

Texas Philomath

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Investing for Dummies 101

18 January 2005 - Published on Amazon.com

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O.k., o.k. so maybe it's not all that simple but I actually meant that in a good way -- I'm the type of guy that would rather understand and retain 100% of a simple book than only 10-50% of a more byzantine treatise. And that's what this book allowed me to do. I am a smart guy who reads and knows a lot about entrepreneurship, building companies, and real estate investing, but I never bothered to learn about the basics of the stock market... it always seemed so... foreign to me. This book got me over that hump... Peter Lynch did a phenomenal job of starting from the basics of yesteryear and building up to the stock market of today -- or sort of today... I think the book was written in the pre-intenet era so some of the info is a bit out-dated.

Excellent book for a beginner who wants to build a strong foundation of understanding of the stock market. It would make a great gift for a child, teenager, or young person who's intelligent and curious but for whatever reason uninformed about how the stock market works and how they can benefit from its existence.

14 people found this helpful

Old Man Munk

BEST IN CLASS!

26 July 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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The best introductory investment book I have read - and I have read/listened to several hundred business/investment books. I have purchased dozens of copies over the years to give to novices.

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