Money: Master the Game
Tony Robbins · 2014
Tony Robbins distills interviews with 50+ of the world's greatest investors into a 7-step blueprint for building a lifetime "income machine" that pays you whether you work or not. The core promise: cut hidden fees, automate saving, and use smart asset allocation so financial freedom becomes a winnable game, not a fantasy.
Accessible distillation of top investors' strategies for building a retirement income machine.
Three of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Money pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.
- Pay yourself first by automating a fixed percentage of every paycheck (aim for 10%+, start at 3% if needed) into a separate "Freedom Fund" you invest and never touch.
- Fees quietly devour your returns: most actively managed funds charge ~2-3% a year and still fail to beat the market, so default to low-cost index funds to keep more of your money compounding.
- Asset allocation, not stock-picking, drives the majority of your long-term results, so spread money across a Security bucket, a Risk/Growth bucket, and a Dream bucket sized to your goals.
The other 4 — and the full 7-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 8 chapters
The whole summary runs about 7 minutes, read or listened to.
- Money Is a Game You Can Win
- Pay Yourself First: The Freedom Fund
- Become the Insider: Bust the Money Myths
- Price Your Dreams: The Five Levels of Freedom
- The Most Important Decision: Asset Allocation
- The All Weather Portfolio
- Upside Without the Downside: Income for Life
- Invest Like the 0.001% and Then Give
Finish Money tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 7 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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