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Profit from a powerful, proven investment strategy

The Little Book That Makes You Rich is the latest book in the popular "Little Book, Big Profits" series. Written by Louis Navellier -- one of the most well-respected and successful growth investors of our day -- this book offers a fundamental understanding of how to get rich using the best in growth investing strategies. Navellier has made a living by picking top, actively traded stocks and capturing unparalleled profits from them in the process. Now, with The Little Book That Makes You Rich, he shows you how to find stocks that are poised for rapid price increases, regardless of overall stock market direction. Navellier also offers the statistical and quantitative measures needed to measure risk and reward along the path to profitable growth stock investing. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book That Makes You Rich gives individual investors specific tools for selecting stocks based on the factors that years of research have proven to lead to growth stock profits. These factors include analysts' moves, profit margins expansion, and rapid sales growth. In addition to offering you tips for not paying too much for growth, the author also addresses essential issues that every growth investor must be aware of, including which signs will tell you when it's time to get rid of a stock and how to monitor a portfolio in order to maintain its overall quality. Accessible and engaging, The Little Book That Makes You Rich outlines an effective approach to building true wealth in today's markets.

Louis Navellier (Reno, NV) has one of the most exceptional long-term track records of any financial newsletter editor in America. As a financial analyst and editor of investment newsletters since 1980, Navellier's recommendations (published in Emerging Growth) have gained over 4,806 percent in the last 22 years, as confirmed by a leading independent newsletter rating service, The Hulbert Financial Digest. Emerging Growth is one of Navellier's four services, which also includes his Blue Chip Growth service for large-cap stock investors, his Quantum Growth service for active traders seeking shorter-term gains, and his Global Growth service for active traders focused on high growth global stocks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11792 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Self confessed numbers geek Navellier has developed what he claims is an effective and durable system to beat the stock market, long thought a money-loser by financiers due to its self-correcting nature. Rather than focus on one or two indicators, Navellier has weighted a basket of eight variables ("earnings revisions," "operating margins," "free cash flow," etc.), a quantitative strategy he shares in complex detail and happily accessible prose. Looking into the hows and whys of stock performance, Navellier lays open the complex economic environment and explicates his eight indicators in depth, showing how they relate to the market and the real world. Though he relates choosing stocks to everyday activities such as household budgeting and sports ("Never fall in love with your second baseman or your stocks"), his precise "by the numbers" approach is far removed from emotional interference. Still, he does take into account investors' personal preferences and predicament-risk level, stress, age, tax situation and so on. Providing numerous successful examples of his system's past performance, one can't help but wonder how long this system will continue to yield results; still, this good-natured guidebook will help anyone new to investing or interested in learning a new way to look at the market.
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Review
"Navellier builds a good case for this of investing"  (Bloomberg News, Wednesday 21st November 2007)

"A useful book on growth investing. . . Perhaps the greatest appeal of Mr. Navellier’s effort. . . is not that he offers a step-by-step guide to what he looks for in a growth company . . . The real joy comes from his frequent admonitions that Wall Street is not as rational as it would like to pretend, and in fact it is often driven either by fear — as it is these days — or by greed." (The New York Times)

"Navellier builds a good case for this style of investing. It might work for you." (Bloomberg News)

"A real contribution to investment literature. . . " (MarketWatch)

"No Greek letters or complex equations are necessary for understanding and even emulating Navellier. He focuses on eight straightforward factors for sorting the wheat from the chaff and has seen his leading newsletter, Emerging Growth, outperform the overall market nearly fourfold over 22 years. His mutual and institutional stock funds have performed handsomely too, with his Touchstone Large Cap Growth in the top 3% and 130f similar funds over one and three years, respectively, according to Morningstar." (Dow Jones newswire)

"'One of the chief things I have learned is that numbers do not have emotions. . . They don't panic; they don't get greedy. They don't have an argument with their spouse or associates and make bad decisions as a result.' True enough — and for all investors, words to live by." (Registered Rep magazine)

"Navellier did a good job with the book and offers a nice introduction to screening. . . He should be given full credit for freely opening up his system to everyone." (The Kirk Report)

"This is a very helpful guide to building a strong portfolio without spending a great amount of time on it."  (Pensions World, January 2008)

“…the book offers a fundamental understanding of how to get rich using the best in growth investing strategies.” (Gulf Business, March)

From the Inside Flap

Louis Navellier is one of the most well-respected growth investors of our day. He's pulled impressive profits from the stock market for over twenty-seven years, he has also helped investors beat the market by nearly a 4-to-1 margin. Now, with The Little Book That Makes You Rich, he'll show you how to do the same.

Growth investing—which aims to produce capital gains rather than income—is one of the best ways to invest for success. Best of all, Navellier has created a proven and easy-to-follow approach to growth investing that offers you a rare opportunity to outperform the market without taking on excessive risk. In The Little Book That Makes You Rich, Navellier explains exactly why this proactive approach works and skillfully shows you how it can be used to find stocks that are poised for rapid price increases—regardless of overall stock market direction.

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book That Makes You Rich details a proven formula for finding growth stocks that beat the market, which combines eight powerful fundamentals—such as sales growth and cash flow—with key quantitative ratings that measure the risk versus reward of buying a stock. It also outlines specific tools that take the guesswork out of when to buy and when to sell any stock on Wall Street.

You'll learn precisely what to do to best maximize your returns, including how to structure a winning growth portfolio. And perhaps, most importantly, you'll discover how to monitor and maintain the overall strength and quality of your portfolio without spending excessive amounts of time doing so.

Louis Navellier has made his living by investing in healthy, vital, growing companies. This approach allowed him to turn his financial dreams into a reality,and it could empower you to do the same. Written in an accessible and engaging style, The Little Book That Makes You Rich outlines an effective approach to building true wealth in today's markets—and proves you don't need the resources of a powerful Wall Street firm to achieve unparalleled investment success.

Customer Reviews

Hype. Self promotion and marketing machine at work.
Before employing this strategy, i suggest you review the performance of Navelliers mutual funds on Morningstar.com and/or other websites. Despite tremendous performance figures presented in the book, most of his funds rank poorly over the last 5 years on an annual basis. They are typically in the bottom quartile. Yes, his long-term numbers are still good and occasionally he has a decent year, but the reality is that the performance outlined in the book isn't what he's delivered over the last 5 years.

I'm always very leary of performance claims without the supporting data. For a "numbers guy" I was suprised only the basic return numbers were included. No supporting information is provided the shows the annual returns, risk or tracking error. Nor is the benchmark discussed. Further digging showed why. There is s huge disconnect between the real performance of the funds he runs and what's presented in the book. Be care employing this magic formula as, for the most part, even Louis doesn't produce the numbers he claims.

Ideas found elsewhere, but overall good
The book provides 8 clear ways to evaluate if you should buy a stock. These ideas are similar to William O'Neil or other investors, but overall good reminder as to what to look for. You can read this book in an hour. The only issue with this book is that you are basically buying and holding even when the market is down.

Do you want to know what the Author is buying? Go to his web site at www.navellier.com where he manages funds. His model portfolio's are down, some over 20% ! Yes, the issue here like many people that manage funds or model portfolios is that they stay invested even in the worst times.

Indicating what to buy is good as this book outlines, but having people hold on for a gut wrenching ride losing over 20% to wait YEARS to get it back to me is foolishness.

What is missing in this book is an overall market viewpoint to answer the question "Should I be a buyer, selling short, or stay in cash?"

This book does not answer that question. A great book that will and pointed to the down market in 2008 is the classic "Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street." This book is a real winner and has a similar formula for picking stocks but you will get few results.

I would take Navellier stock picking recommendations then be a buyer based on Zweig's marketing timing model. Why buy big in a down market? If you want a gut wrenching experience go to Cedar Point or 6 Flags.

The Little Book that Makes You Rich
Very simple to understand and very straightforward. It helps an investor to understand he needs to remain cool, rely on facts and forget about emotions.