Seths Blog: Urgent personal finance advice

From my experience, you can't always predict what is going to go up in value. Houses can go down, and there are plenty of graduates paying on student loans for years and making much less than what they had anticipated. The more you can pay for upfront, the better. Avoid all debt as much... more

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Rated by Tigeeer8 on Jun 24 2008, 3:32am

From Whata From a higher stayte of financial consciousness From your wallet.But not from your funny card.
Rated by mollermarketing on Jun 10 2008, 11:34pm

What more really needs to be said about financial planning?
Rated by Henru82 on Jun 10 2008, 9:11pm

From the page: "Only borrow money to pay for things that increase in value."
Rated by alex-hardy on Jun 10 2008, 2:20am

Seth Godin shares some of the best financial advice you'll ever get: Don't borrow money to buy things that depreciate. That's just about anything apart from investments in your business, your education or buying a home.
Rated by JamesDuthie on Jun 09 2008, 9:00pm

Seth shares some wise words of managing finance and debt.
Rated by ericjgruber on Jun 09 2008, 8:45pm

From my experience, you can't always predict what is going to go up in value. Houses can go down, and there are plenty of graduates paying on student loans for years and making much less than what they had anticipated. The more you can pay for upfront, the better. Avoid all debt as much as possible.
Rated by kmccartney on Jun 09 2008, 12:16pm

good sound advice. I love livin' debt free
Rated by Whata on Jun 09 2008, 8:56am

Listen to this man before it's too late!
Rated by rumpkins on Jun 09 2008, 7:59am

I wish my generation could hear this great advice!
Rated by shaunconnell on Jun 09 2008, 6:56am

seth godin explains why debt is destructive. awesome post.

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