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Free Press, January 2006
eBook, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0743282442
ISBN-13: 9780743282444
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Do you know what your "number" is? It's the amount you need for your nest egg. Have you saved enough? Can you save enough? The Number offers an intriguing and entertaining tour -- of wealth gurus, life coaches, and financial advisers, and our hopes and fears for the future -- to explore the secrets of the Number. The result is a provocative field guide to your psyche and finances, and an urgently useful book for anyone over thirty.
The Number will help you think about the kind of life you want, and the kind of help you need to achieve it.Read more:
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"There are precious few works that deal with the central issues of existence--life, death, and money--with this much elegance and wit. This amusing, essential book succeeds in tapping into the dreams and schemes of an entire generation who learned how to hang out and do very little in the 60s--and would now like to hang out and do very little in its 60s. Back then we were listening to Hendrix. Today we're tuned into Eisenberg."
--Stanley Bing, author of Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War
-- Stanley Bing, author of Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War
"Lee Eisenberg has somehow found the sweet spot when it comes to 'financial planning' and, indeed, life. I started to read this book to write an endorsement, and ended up using it as a personal guide to my future. Yikes!"
--Tom Peters, author of Re-Imagine! and In Search of Excellence
-- Tom Peters, author of Re-Imagine! and In Search of Excellence
"Thinking about retirement is as pleasant as a colonoscopy. Not in Lee Eisenberg's hands, however. He has written a funny and wise book about how to think about your future but also, and more important, how to think about life."
--Ken Auletta, author of Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire
-- Ken Auletta, author of Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire
"An important book, one that illuminates the appalling mistakes that many baby boomers are making as they approach later life."
-- Wall Street Journal
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 4, 2010
...When author Lee Eisenberg took a job working the sales floor at Target, he was taught not to say 'May I help you?' but rather, 'Can I help you find something?' It's ...
Chicago Tribune, December 9, 2009
...It’s appropriate that Lee Eisenberg’s new book, “Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What,” is out just in time for the annual tradition of holiday binging. Not binging ...
CNN, November 25, 2009
...Consumers look for values at a department store earlier this year. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Lee Eisenberg says a down economy has turned American spenders into scrimpers It's early to tell whether consumer habits have shifted permanently, he says ...
On Wall Street, June 2, 2009
...efforts surrounding retirement planning involve numbers: life spans, expenses and income. There was even a recent book by Lee Eisenberg on retirement entitled The Number on the idea of a specific money amount-different for each ...
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ShoptimismBestselling author Lee Eisenberg searches for a Universal Buy Theory that explains why we behave in rational and irrational ways when we shop.Read More
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