Product Description

Teen authors The Beatty Brothers offer an account of common financial insecurities in their inspirational how-to, Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks. Heeding their parents advice, David, Devin, and Deric Beatty have spent their childhood and adolescent years pulling weeds for extra cash, preparing and presenting marketing strategies, picking stocks, and investing in their future. Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks includes their easy-to-follow tips for being rich at fifteen, thirteen, and seven, such as budget worksheets, work ethics, asset liability evaluation, and tithing. No matter what age, you can follow these practical guidelines to make cents of the change in your life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #245080 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

Customer Reviews

Shows Amazing Potential for Our Youth
This book is a very to-the-point narrative that left me feeling positive about an excellent parenting technique. This shows the amazing potential that everyone possesses regardless of age. I'll be re-reading this when I need inspiration, and will encourage many others to read this to help motivate them to realize their potentials. This is a very fast read, and can be educational to children and adults alike.

Great Pick of Juvenile Nonfiction
"Pulling Weeds" is a time-honored way for entrepreneurial boys to make some pocket money. More than that, pulling weeds taught the Beatty brothers (David, 16, Devin, 14, and Deric, 8) lessons about service-based jobs. From these nitty-gritty lessons in personal finances, they moved on to reading books, asking questions, listening to others, and putting what they learned about personal finances into practice. Setting goals, cutting expenses, avoiding debt, writing business plans, and investing their savings in the stock market have become a way of life for them.

"Picking Stocks" and investing in the stock market is an uncommon way for even the most enterprising of boys and girls to make money. The Beatty brothers are an exception to the rule. Sometime ago, Dad Beatty gave his boys $1,000 in make-believe money to invest in the stock market. He pointed the boys to Yahoo! Finance and the boys took it from there. First, they learned to look up stock tickers and read about companies. Then they advanced to comparing businesses and ranking industries. Step-by-step they picked up the jargon of Wall Street, a language not taught in their public schools.

"Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks" is a small book filled with plain and simple lessons for life. Credit cards? Don't use them. In debt? Get out of it. Got income? Account for it. Spending money? Document it. Got a surplus? Invest it.

The Beatty brothers offer practical, sound advice for success in life. Live your life like you were running a business. Write a personal business plan for your life. Set goals. Believe in yourself.

Unexpectedly, this is a book with an unassailable lesson on tithing -- not just tithing your money, but tithing your time -- giving of yourself to help others. Helping begins at home, assisting Mom and Dad with the household chores. Then it expands to helping others. Peers may laugh at you but older people will appreciate you. The habit of tithing your time to help others will enrich your life, so say the Beatty brothers from their exemplary personal experiences.

My Favorite Beatty Quotes: (Dad Beatty) "Help others without looking for praise." (Mom Beatty) "You have a brain, use it!" (Beatty boys) "Give without being caught."

Bottom Line: This is a book about learning -- learning about businesses, learning about industries, learning about finances, learning about markets, learning about investing, and learning from mistakes. But chiefly, this is a book about learning self-reliance.

There is nothing in this book that I don't already know as an investor and as an informed senior citizen. But the lessons came much later in life for me. My interest in the stock market germinated in my twenties, not in my teens. My investments in the stock market commenced in my late thirties, not at pubescence. All I can say about the Beatty brothers is, "Wow!"

Do you know a youngster or two in middle school or junior high? I believe this book would make a significant gift that just might empower them for life.

Can't wait for my sons to read this!
Rush was very gracious to these young men when he gave them some free air time and advice. I love how the book shot to #5 the next day. I bought it on the strength of the character that I perceived in the boy who spoke to Rush. My oldest son (10) loves to write and is very interested in how businesses work and make profit. I bought the book for him and his brother (8), but I wanted to read it first.

Well, I read it today and it is an excellent book! It uses wit and humor to get across a very mature understanding of morality, selflessness, good stewardship and good old fashion capitalism. As a parent, I got as much out of reading about the clever and engaging way that the boys' parents have of teaching them life lessons as I did reading the boys' insights. I may try some of these ideas myself!

I love the chapter on "Pulling Weeds" where the boys describe some of the jobs (or a better word, "activities") that they have done to raise money. They really put their hearts into everything they do. When they spoke about their "garage grocery store" I had one of those, "Now why didn't I think of that?" moments.

The chapter on "Tithing" was eye-opening as well. These boys believe in giving of their time, as well as money, and they describe ways that they have gone out into their community to do small good deeds for complete strangers.

Overall, I would recomend this book highly. I just wish it could have been longer; it was a pleasure to read.