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Pulling Weeds to Picking Stocks | 
 enlarge | Author: The Beatty Boys
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 64431
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 108
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5 x 0.2
ISBN: 1604627875
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN: 9781604627879
ASIN: 1604627875
Publication Date: August 5, 2008
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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.
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 Shows Amazing Potential for Our Youth August 25, 2008
Bob E (Wheeling, IL USA)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
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 September 5, 2008
John M. Lowe (Knoxville, Tennessee)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
"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.
Kudos to the Beatty Boys! September 6, 2008
Mary E. Pinter (Chicago, IL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I loved this little 5x7 104 page book. Even though I was aware of most of these principals of how to succeed in life just by being on earth so long, immediately after reading it I decided to start making my own bread, keep a written account of where every penny goes and have advertised on Craigs list about a small start up business I've been thinking about - just for starters. These boys got me up off my 70 year old, newly-retired-tiny-income backside to make a better life for myself. Thank you Beatty Boys. And.... when you go on the television shows to tell the nation about your book, please bring along your parents. They are extraordinary parents!!! I said 'EXTRAORDINARY'! What fabulous hands on help and direction they have given you. I would love to meet them. The best to all of you and I will be looking to hear wonderful things about you.
I just want to hug this family, what great kids September 14, 2008
G. K. Halseth (Ann Arbor, MI area)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a charming, straightforward and thoughtful book. The methods and precepts go beyond finances and can be applied to life in general. These kids have got it. This books needs to be on every child's required reading list. Thank you Beatty Boys for writing it and sharing it. I look forward to many great things coming from your well trained, disciplined, eager, strong, confident, intelligent, caring minds and hearts.
Inspiring September 23, 2008
Leslie
After hearing about this on Rush I had to buy. I enjoyed the enlightening story about these boys and their family, and this shows how us old timers grew up and learned to appreciate what life is all about. I intend to give to my granddaughters to read, and hope this will inspire them.
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