I Will Teach You to Be Rich
by Ramit Sethi
A six-week program for people in their twenties and thirties: fix credit cards, open the right accounts, automate savings and investing, then spend guilt-free on what you love. Sethi is opinionated and funny, and the automation chapter alone has probably moved more money into index funds than any other personal-finance chapter. US-centric.
Read it if…
you earn a salary, have no system, and want a step-by-step setup you can finish in a month.
Skip it if…
you are outside the US or already automated; much is account-specific.
Three things you will actually use
- Automate everything that can be automated.
- Spend lavishly on what you love, cut mercilessly on what you do not.
- Negotiate once; it pays for years.
Do this first
Set up one automatic transfer from checking to investments for the day after payday.
Our verdict
The best starter manual for money in a decade; practical, specific, a bit loud.
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