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I Will Teach You To Be Rich
www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog
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Personal finance blog for college students, recent graduates and everyone else -- including entrepreneurship -- for getting rich. Featured in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
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The Money Diaries: The unemployed web developer who struggles with her desire to give generously as...

I love hearing how people spend their money. Unfortunately, people lie — they share purchases that are socially acceptable (“organic fruit”), but not the purchases they really make. So we creat...

17 h ago

Case Study: “How I Nearly Doubled My Salary as an Introvert”

Last year, an IWT reader named Andre emailed me, asking to write a guest post about overcoming his barriers as an introvert. He was originally going to write about his quest to manage being an introv...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

Is the 401(k) a failed experiment?

New York Times writer Joe Nocera recently penned an article decrying the 401(k) as a “failed experiment.” As he writes, “…I’m not planning to retire. More accurately, I can’t retire. My 401(k) ...

5 days ago

Who controls the money in your relationship?

Indian culture is patriarchal in most ways. Yet interestingly, women control the money. Men come home from work and hand their paychecks to the mother of the house. And since multiple generations usu...

25 may 12

Something a lot of my readers need to see

(From the always-hilarious someecards.com)

24 may 12

Case Study: From $0 to $2000 per month in 3 weeks

“I have too many ideas…I’m not sure what to do.” “The idea” is one of the classic barriers that keep people from earning more money: They have too many ideas They have no ideas anyone will pay ...

23 may 12

The 3 Most Effective Ways to Earn More Money

When I went on book tour in 2009, I met readers from all over the country: Seattle, Minneapolis, LA, and all over. I remember meeting them and asking what they wished I wrote more about. The response...

21 may 12

Smart Women Marry For ______

“I’m going to marry for love” is such a deeply held belief that’s become an invisible script. After all, who wouldn’t want to marry someone they love? But “love marriages” are only a recent developme...

18 may 12

Case Study: How Mike earned an extra $6,065 in 8 weeks

A classic line from people starting to try to earn money on the side: “I had a lot of people that were interested, then they would disappear and never take me up on my proposal.” Some peo...

13 may 12

How much should a man spend on an engagement ring?

Here’s one of my favorite money and gender questions: How much should a man spend on an engagement ring? Out of curiosity, I once asked this at the dinner table, and my entire family put their forks ...

11 may 12

Why Most People Fail at Making Online Products (And How You Can Win)

A confession: I’ve left millions of dollars on the table by not developing a course about how to build your own online product and sell it on the Internet. My courses have sold well over $100,000 in ...

08 may 12

This is officially the cutest photo on the Internet

Look at this photo from Friday’s New York Times: My parents are in the New York Times in an article called “How to Raise a Financial Wizard,” and I could not be prouder. Funny backstory: it was origi...

06 may 12

A confession about gender and money…

I’ve wanted to write about money and gender for YEARS. I have the most RIDICULOUS set of stories about friends, marriage, dating, salaries, negotiating, and investing between men and women…plus...

04 may 12

When will men/women be honest about money — or lie?

Some of my favorite studies from psychology are when people will not or cannot tell the truth …and they don’t even know it. For example, we have countless studies of people eating more because ...

02 may 12

May: What do women really want?

I just got back from a 3-week vacation (more on that later) so I’m feeling extremely lazy…thus I’m skipping my usual long prose and jumping straight to bullet points. This way, I can go back to...

01 may 12

How to make expensive purchases

Today I want to talk about making expensive purchases. Too often, we see something expensive we like, feel guilty because we know we shouldn’t get it…and then we buy it! Only to feel more...

29 apr 12

$1,001 Contest Winner (and Twitter posts)

We have a winner! Congratulations to J. Money, the winner of my “How would you spend $1,001?” contest. Here’s how he said he’d spend the cash: The first thing I’d do is dump $...

27 apr 12

The psychology of putting effectiveness before ego

I spend a lot of time talking about BIG wins (like salary negotiation) instead of incremental cutbacks on lattes or paper towels. The “big win” mentality is how hundreds of my students have landed th...

25 apr 12

Be the expert: How should this guy manage his monthly expenses?

Here’s a recent email from IWT reader Richard A. How would you answer his question? “I have no idea why I’m writing this but you seem like the only person that would even care and/o...

20 apr 12

The Power of Small Wins

When I was researching my book, I discovered that one of the first feelings when people see a book/course about money is…DREAD. “Ugh…I’m going to have to analyze all my spending…fin...

18 apr 12

My latest experiment: Giving away $1,001

I always find it funny when people talk about what they would do if they made $100,000, because they usually say things like “I would spend all day giving away money to charity, feeding puppies, and ...

16 apr 12

Clueless “experts” love talking about tax refunds

Ahhh…tax refunds. Everyone (especially virtually every personal-finance “expert”) has an opinion about them. And most of them are wrong. I explained why this is nonsense in a blog post last yea...

13 apr 12

“What if I’m a job hopper?”

“What should I do if I’m a job hopper?” This is one of the top questions I received in over 30,000 data points I collected for the Find Your Dream Job course. In fact, I got it so many times that I d...

10 apr 12 1 person likes this

What would you do with a free $1,000?

It’s funny how people talk about wanting to lose 10lbs, but when you ask them if they’ve changed their diet or hit the gym, they say, “Well, I was really busy last week…” Same with money. How m...

09 apr 12

The insights about what you SAY vs. what you DO

I love getting comments like this: “TLDR, this is too long. You ever heard of an editor?” It makes sense that people ask for shorter versions. They’re busy! They need to get through all t...

05 apr 12

How Andrew went from $0 to $1,500 a month in side income in 2 weeks

A couple of years ago, I was on a call with students and I mentioned that I didn’t cook. The next day, I got an email from one of my students, Andrew, who’d been listening in on the call. Ramit, If y...

02 apr 12

New on IWT: Ramit answers your advanced questions

Seriously, who refers to themselves in the third person on a blog post. Anyway, a couple days ago, I ran a video of me ranting at a dumb question from one of my readers. I’ve also done Q&As on my...

30 mar 12

How to Buy a Car (The Ramit Way)

Matthew from Overland Park, KS, asks: ““I have a car that I’ve been making payments on for a little over a year and I want to get something else. Is it a good idea to trade it in when making an...

28 mar 12

Quick reminder: My book is $2.24 for the next few days

Quick reminder… For the next few days, my publisher is running a promotion so the digital version of book, which took me 2 painstaking years of near-suicide to write, is less than $3. Read it o...

26 mar 12

Case Study: How Claire used Craigslist to make $8,000 on the side

You’ll notice some classic things in this case study of Claire, one of my Earn1K students who earned over $8,000 on the side: She already had a $50K-a-year job, but with the terrible economy and layo...

21 mar 12 1 person likes this

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