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| How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Shemin
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (46 reviews)
Sales Rank: 30485
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307395073
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.024
EAN: 9780307395078
ASIN: 0307395073
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
Release Date: March 4, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 How come that idiot's rich and I'm not? July 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was very enlightening to the extent that it opened my eyes to the way I think about my future. Rather than looking at my path in a negative manner, I was able to close out other people's opinions, and most of all, my own negative outlook of my own path to success. I really enjoyed this book because it was straight to the point, and easy to relate to. Robert Shemin rocked in this book. Thank you.
Check Your Negativity at the Door July 11, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Goodness gracious - I'm sitting down to write a glowing review of Robert Shemin's new book and I see so many negative reviews that I almost got discouraged.
Check your negativity at the door, people. Does Robert's book include "old" information - absolutely. More often than not we need to be "reminded", not taught. The question isn't whether you've "heard" this stuff before; it's whether you're living it in your life.
I LOVED this book and I thought its lessons about UNLEARNING the lessons that you've internalized and leveraging other people's ideas, experience, and money are RIGHT ON!
Do yourself a favor - ignore the critics and buy the book - you'll be glad you did!
Frazier O'Leary
Wholesale Coordinator
Express Homebuyers LLC
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 great book July 8, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a really great book. It arrived on time and the way the distributor described it. Thank you.
 Save Your Money July 1, 2008
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
and don't buy this book. It's awful. It's a rehash of stuff you've heard before, with some simple-minded "real life examples" thrown in to support his claims. I especially love the story he tells in the section about "giving", where he had a friend come and ask him for money. So Robert writes him a check and his friend says "double that amount". So Robert writes another one and the guy tears it up and says "double it again". So Robert does, but begs the guy not to deposit it because he doesn't have enough money to cover the check. The guy deposits it (some friend, huh?) anyway but what happens? Magically money appears in Robert's account!!! Some guy he loaned money to 7 years ago pays him back at the exact same time the charitable check clears. And another check, "a huge check", arrived that same day!! If there's a lesson in there, I missed it. Robert also downplays the idea of sitting around and waiting for a miracle, such as getting an inheritance or hitting the lottery, to happen. While I do agree with this, I started to think that perhaps if I wrote a check to charity for far more than I could cover, like Robert did, that perhaps I WOULD win the lottery, just like Robert got his checks. Ya never know.
Save your money. Skip this junk.
Rich Idiots don't buy books like this. June 29, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
First of all, I have to tell you that I do appreciate some of his other work.
With that being said, this is one of the biggest pieces of S***! I've read since Rich Dad, Poor Dad. These ideas have been played out in so many books, and the real estate section in this book? Are you even remotely serious? None of these techniques would work in the current housing market, a lender would hang up on you, people aren't handing their houses over, even in a foreclosure market, banks aren't selling that many shorts. The rest of the book is simple common sense, if you don't know your upside down when you invest in a 3-5 percent fund and you pay 21 percent on a credit card then this book would be great to hit yourself in the head with.
Don't waste your money, I did.
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