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If you’re visiting from today’s New York Times article, welcome.

I’m a recent Stanford grad and this is a blog on personal finance and personal entrepreneurship for college students, recent college grads, and everyone else. (Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Guardian UK, etc.)

This blog is me ranting about a few things and trying to get the points across. Getting started is more important than being the smartest person in the room. Making mistakes is ok. Action is more important than reading 50 blogs. Ordinary actions get ordinary results. And there’s a difference between being sexy and being Rich.

Some popular articles you may want to check out from the last 2 years of archives:

Introductory Articles
Why do you want to be rich?
The Best Decision vs. The Financially Smart One
Cheap versus frugal
A big fear I have of this site
2006 Makeover, Step #4: Open your retirement accounts

Investing
An analysis of 1000+ IWillTeachYouToBeRich survey responses– and some new decisions (Best feedback ever)
Dumb: “Don’t invest; you can’t beat the pros”
All about stocks and bonds
All about mutual funds
Read Warren Buffet’s letters

Personal Entrepreneurship
Set smaller goals: impress friends, get girls, lose weight
Barriers are your enemy
I Hate Indian Network Marketers So Much
We love to debate minutiae
Your College is Not a Technical School
On greed and speed
The Myth of the Great Idea

Miscellaneous
Here are 50 books I recommend
What are we doing on this site?
I bought a tie (I love this post because of how angry the comments are)
Cost vs. value: Why I bought a new car (Sorry guys, but I stand by what I wrote)
Probably one of the best comments this site has ever gotten
Boy am I stupid

Saving
Conscious spending: How my friend spends $21,000/year on going out
Here’s how I set up my financial accounts
Letting your parents manage your money is dumb
The Power of Compounding
Time is NOT money–at least, not yours
Cook at home, you lazy bastard

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Posted February 3, 2007 under Miscellaneous

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grant February 3rd, 2007: I've been lurking for a year or so and I'd never seen the tie post. The comments are brilliant. I can't tell if they're kidding or actually made in anger.

K February 3rd, 2007

Woo Hoo Ramit!

Good job on the mention.

For new readers, you'll find a wealth of information on this site. Plus Ramit is one of the most approachable bloggers out there. Definitely a daily read.

Nagel February 3rd, 2007

Ramit has some great information on personal finance. and investing. Here's some of more information investing:

http://finance.webaplex.com/01/tips-for-investing-in-wall-street-stocks/

Andrew February 3rd, 2007

Ramit - Congrats on the NYT mention!! I have been reading your site for just a few weeks, but I can already thank you for many things, including the link to BizBookTalk where I won a free book!

Keep it up and let's keep helping one another get free from the rat race...

Allen.H February 3rd, 2007

Just like Andrew, I've discovered this blog merely a month ago and still go to the archives to read some of the older, sometimes even better posts.

Allen.H

j February 3rd, 2007

Please! We all know that the New York Post is the REAL paper in that town. They once plugged my blog in a front-page article on why Democrats cause cancer.

But seriously now, congrats on a sweet NYT plug.

kim February 3rd, 2007

ramit! congrats on the nyt mention and the success of this site :) glad to see you are doing so well.

-- kim vinh

Nita Singh February 3rd, 2007

Ramit,

The New York Times mention is very exciting. Keep up the great work on the site!

-Nita Singh

Damien February 6th, 2007: Good job! But do you have to mention that you are a Stanford grad every single time? How recent is recent by the way?

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