Suze Orman is an American financial expert, author, and media personality. Despite a speech impediment, she attended university and worked at a bakery before becoming a stockbroker. She founded her own financial group and has written best-selling books, hosted TV shows, and been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people.
Suze Orman is a well-known American financial expert, entrepreneur and media personality. She was born Susan Lynn Orman to Russian Jewish parents on June 5, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. Suze has written many best-selling books on finance and hosted her own award-winning television show, The Suze Orman Show. She teaches Americans how to manage their finances, investments, credit and banking.
As a child, Suze had a speech impediment and this made it difficult for her to speak and read. Despite this, she continued to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. However, Suze was one foreign language class short of completing her social work degree. She moved to Berkeley, California in 1973 after traveling there in a van with friends from Chicago. Suze worked at Buttercup Bakery while she was taking a Spanish course to get her degree.
While at Buttercup Bakery, Suze dreamed of starting her own restaurant business and was loaned by one of her bakery customers $50,000 US Dollars (USD). She invested the money with the Merrill Lynch finance company. The broker who manages her account has lost all of her money. Suze then applied to Merrill Lynch for a job as her job as a waitress at Buttercup Bakery was not paying her enough to allow her to repay her client for the lost money.
After convincing Merrill Lynch to hire her, Suze Orman studied the subject of finance and learned all she could. She sued Merrill Lynch for losing her money and won enough in a settlement to pay her client back the $50,000 USD. Merrill Lynch was unable to fire her due to her lawsuit, and Suze continued to work as a stockbroker for the company.
In 1983, Suze Orman left Merrill Lynch and became Vice President of Investments at Prudential Bache Securities. In 1987, she resigned from that position and founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. Suze spent ten years as a director of her own company before starting writing books and speaking publicly on the subject of finance. Her books include 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and Dare to Be Rich.
Six of Orman’s books have become New York Times Best Sellers and she hosted television specials and appeared on talk shows before hosting The Suze Orman Show. In 2007, Business Week Magazine named Suze Orman America’s Best Female Motivational Speaker. In May 2008, Orman was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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