The 10 Laws of Finance

From sleeping in a car at twenty-one to advising on billion-dollar deals, Devon Coombs built the financial system most people are never taught.

The tools don't change. Just the zeros.

The 10 Laws of Finance is a real-world education in money, business, and freedom for anyone who has ever opened their banking app and wondered where it all went. Whether you're working two jobs and falling further behind, deciding if a stable salary is worth what it costs you, weighing a startup offer against a steady paycheck, or sitting on a high income and wondering why you still feel out of control, the laws in this book scale to whatever your numbers are.

Author Devon Coombs lays out the same ten principles he used to climb from homelessness and ten thousand dollars of debt to advising on multibillion-dollar transactions at Google Cloud-and then used again to walk away from a $400,000+ compensation package, decline job offers approaching a million dollars, and design a life on his own terms with his wife and daughter. They are the same principles he now teaches in a college classroom and runs against his own family's balance sheet every month.

Every chapter pairs lived experience with a usable tool. No shortcuts, no get-rich promises-only the system Coombs wishes someone had handed him in that parking lot, written so it works whether there's $60 or $60 billion at stake.

For readers of Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Psychology of Money, I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Your Money or Your Life, and The Total Money Makeover-and for everyone who was told that getting the degree, getting the job, and following the rules would be enough.

Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA, is a teaching professor of finance at Santa Clara University and a strategic advisor to founders, CFOs, and CAOs. He previously served as controller for Google Cloud Marketplace and a finance subject-matter expert for Google Cloud's AI Deals Desk. He lives in San Jos?with his wife and daughter.