Growing a Fortune: Twelve Investment Secrets to Financial Prosperity

by Stefan Bechtel

Multiply your money! During a five-year period Stefan Bechtel achieved a cumulative return for his investments of over 1,250 percent with an average annual return for the same period of more than 68 percent. This charming, wise book imparts to the reader the simple, reliable, time-tested plan he used to dramatically multiplying his money. It does not matter whether you have ten dollars or ten million dollars to invest. Each of the twelve chapters begins with a single, one-sentence lesson explaining a down-to-earth principle. Along the way the book shares a few thoughts about gardening, spirituality and life. Examples
Spend a lot of time preparing the soil. Successful investors spend time thoroughly researching a stock before they buy it.
Put a chair in your garden. Like gardeners, investors fuss and over-water and over-fertilize and just can’t stop doing something. Instead, they should put a chair in their garden and calmly do absolutely nothing.
Don’t eat your seed corn. Wise, long-term investors never spend their principle because that is what makes their "money garden" grow.

177 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002