The Courage to Be Rich

As someone who became very familiar with the FTC and the case against Mr. Haroldsen - It is worthy to note that 1.) The FTC attempted to freeze the funds of the companies run by Mr. Haroldsen, however the judge found that the FTC's evidence was lacking. After the course of the trial, not only did the FTC lose the case on the grounds that Mr Haroldsen was found to be operating his business in accordance with all laws. The judge, from my reading of the court transcript, criticized the FTC for pursuing the case that the FTC had learned during their investigation was invalid. They were also ordered to pay Mr. Haroldsen a large portion of this lawyer fees. My point - don't take what you read to be the truth without investigating it for yourself. For your reference the Case was closed in favor of Mr. Haroldsen in January of 2002 and the information can be found at the FTC's webpage ...

I found a copy of this in my local library. It is a great read. Some information is dated, mostly tax info, but the basic principles are still intact.I am looking forward to other books by Mark Haroldsen.

I first purchased Mark Haroldsen's "How to Wake Up the Financial Genius" way back in 1977. Using his techniques, I was able to build credit (I didn't have bad credit, just no credit) lines from 0 to over a $100,000. I bought rental properties and created a net worth of $500,000 (in 1977 dollars) within a years time."The Courage TO BE RICH" is excellent and goes beyond Goals, Guts and Genius.I like this book much better than the version by Suze Orman which only covers conservative personal finance strategies. The fact that someone like Suze Orman would copy this title should tell you something of the effect that Mark Haroldsen had back in the 70's and 80's.This is a good book and I highly recommend it. Some of the techniques are dated. Others are timeless. The overall message was worth over $500,000 to me.Good book Mark.