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Summary: The proof is out - Kiyosaki students rock!
Review: After reading some of the negative reviews on the other Rich Dad books especially the first one, I was skeptical about the real value of Robert Kiyosaki and felt he was just a "get rich quick" guru.After reading this book, I am convinced that Kiyosaki is for real. More than that, I came in contact with people who have used successfully Kiyosaki's strategies and philosophy and are making some serious money. So impressed was I that I went ahead and bought Rich Dad Poor Dad, Cash Flow Quadrant, Rich Dad's Guide to Investing and Rich Dad's Prophecy. I also recommended this book to many of my friends but alas the bookstore was all sold out after only a few days. I am now recommending that they order through Amazon. Thank you Mr. Kiyosaki for a very exciting book.
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Summary: Very motivating! Inspired me to take action
Review: After reading this outstanding new book by Robert Kiyosaki, "Rich Dad's Success Stories" I decided to fulfill my lifelong dream (I am 46) to start my own business.The chapter on the couple from Arizona who started their own business while in their 50's really inspired me.I spotted an ad in the business opportunty section of my newspaper that was for sale. Then using some creative financing, nailed it!While I always had the dream, "Rich Dad's Success Stories" inspired me to make the move.Thank you Robert.
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Summary: Please research before buying
Review: Anyone interested in this book or Rich Dad Poor Dad, should examine John T. Reed's analysis of Kiyosaki. He points out many contradictions from his first book, and calls into heavy question how Kiyosaki made his money (implying he was broke until he wrote Rich Dad, Poor Dad, meaning most of his advice is bunk). Many of his anecdotes and advice are about as helpful as a chinese fortune cookie, seeming to hold great wisdom, but fall apart on further examination. This guy is a con. Do a search on google for John T. Reed's anaylsis and if you still want to buy it, you have only yourself to blame. To the people saying this book proves his strategies work is like saying a book on lottery winners proves that the lottery is the way to get rich. People need to understand Rich Dad is a fictional character by Kiyosaki's own admission, and thus, despensing fictional advice. Kiyosaki is also a product of the Amway movement. The man was bankrupt before he wrote this book. If a bum comes up to you and starts telling you how to get rich, are you going to listen to him? Kiyosaki is anti-education, in spite of the numerous national studies that show people that go to college on average earn more than those that don't. Also, don't listen to the Leezy review. I don't know which site he went to, but the John T. Reed site I found has no pop-ups or spam under either IE or Mozilla. This is simple propaganda to keep readers from informing themselves. In fact, if Leezy had bothered reading the site he would have found most of his accusations against Reed answered. If this book helps motivate you to start thinking more strategically, fine. But there are far better books out there to get financial advice. Pass on the Rich Dad Poor Dad series.
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Summary: Top notch!
Review: Fantastic read! I have always found true life stories to be the stuff of which really good books are made. This is even more so when the person featured is like me; the average Joe who wants more and decides to take action towards the attainment of his goals and objectives. Creating your own outcomes is up to you, and this book helps illustrate it by providing you with the social proof to motivate and encourage you. I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it to you! Five stars! Reviewed by: James L. Clark, MBA, MSc., PhD Candidate (Leadership) is a serial entrepreneur, lecturer, and consultant in the areas of success, achievement, personal development, influence and leadership. He is the author of the book Wading Through the Crap: How to Start Living the Successful Life You Have Always Wanted (ISBN 0972697551), which has received rave reviews.
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Summary: Still 3 stars, a reply to Dan Mentzer & L. Leonski - Updated
Review: First and foremost, being the reader of Chicago, I defend my comments about my first review. To Dan Mentzer, yes I know about the laundry mat and the vending machine business: I WANTED MORE STORIES ON BUSINESSS! The book has 90 to 95 percent of real estate stories, good for you and others who are concentraing on that. I am looking for something more up my alley! To Lenny Leonski, my goals and ambition to write books is just as important as your wealth builing goals! Robert Kiyosaki has always said it best, DO WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU!! For the record, I am one of the biggest supporters of the Rich Dad series. I have all the the books and the audio progams "You Can Choose to be Rich" and "Rich Dad's Road to Riches", so I hope you were not saying I was a critic to Kiyosaki, because I am not. BOTTOM LINE, if folks are more interested in Real Estate, they should read this book, if not, they should hold off reading it until they do. The main thing I was proud about this book, is that the READERS TOOK ACTION. It does not matter what you goal to wealth building is, weather it is businesses, real estate, books or etc, everyone in the Rich Dad community should be happy for one another on there way to wealth. I also want to say that Dan Mentzer's Oct 6 review is BULL as well!!!!! I did mentioned in my previous review (in which Amazon deleted, not me mr. know-it-all-mentzer) about a couple of business stories. Real estate investing is not a business?? DUH.. tell me something I do not know. I still wanted stories on specific business models other than REAL ESTATE!!!! (CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? GOOD!) Everyone has a right to there GOALS and VISIONS!!! This book just did not do it for me!!!! STILL THREE STARS! This is my last review on this book and I hope everyone (Dan included) who appreciates the Rich Dad principles does well in their endavours, because I know I will!!!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I am fan of Robert Kiyosaki, however I found this book very disappointing. The stories are so new that they really only talk about people making life-changing decisions in the last few years. It would have been better to tell stories about people who have spent at least 5 years utilizing Kiyosaki's principles, so we could see if their new life decisions were effective etc. Or, wait a bit longer and write about these people in a few years time. Two much better books to buy for stories about successful property investors would be two Australian books (and no, I have nothing to do with their authors or any company associated with their promotion):
(1) Jan Somers: Building Wealth Story by Story; and
(2) Jim McKnight: Ordinary Millionaires.
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Summary: Robert Kiyosaki Changes Lives!!!
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone who is lacking motivation or encouragement. Kiyosaki's books work and these people are proof! Kiyosaki is no get rich quick scam artist, but a personal finance philosopher and uses age old wealth techniques. This guy is the real thing.
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Summary: I just bought this one - another winner!
Review: I just bought this book this morning while talking to another gentlemen at our local book store who was on his way to the check out isle with 4 Rich Dad Books. As I see it, this is an outstanding book. While it is success stories, it is also motivating. It shows people who have done it and even gives ideas on how you can do it too. And this is not just real estate as one reviewer (who obviously never read the book indicates). There are business stories. Rags to riches stories. Young people who have done it. Older people who have done. People in all parts of the country have done and are still doing it (succeeding that is) No doubt the 1 star reviewer is not doing too well and perhaps jealous of the success of Kiyosaki students. Rich Dad Success Stories is an excellent book and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great book - very inspiring
Review: I just finished reading Rich Dad's Success Stories and Rich Dad Poor Dad.Rich Dad's Success Stories was very inspiring. Great to see people from all walkd of life and different ages succeed and so quickly too! Rich Dad Poor Dad offers a paridimn shift and really sold me on the concept of starting my own business, getting into real estate and 86-ing my J-O-B which really does stand for just over broke.Rich Dad Poor Dad also got me to think of several creative income ideas. I will never go back to think the old way again.A friend of mine has the Rich Dad board game. I couldn't believe how poorly I did (that was before reading the books) and that was my wake up call. I was using Poor Dad thinking which explains why I wasn't getting anywhere. Now that I have read these two books, I am looking forward to playing the game again and then on to the more advanced game.More importantly, it's on to financial self reliance ala Kiyosaki.Thank you Robert for 2 outstanding books. I will be adding other RD books to my library soon. Your books are the only ones that I have bought that actually deliver on their promises....and then some.
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Summary: Roberts Books HAVE Changed My Life Too
Review: I just want to say to all the critics out there - You can not possibly measure what Roberts books have done for people like me. I've heard all that stuff about how he's not a good author, how he's only a get-rich guru, how this stuff doesn't really work. Sounds like a lot of jealous and bitter people to me! For one - Robert shares with us exactly what he did to be making 1 million a month from his real estate and business investments. So unless you think he's the worlds luckiest or smartest person, you can do it too. Also, he repeatedly tells us he's not the best writer... but we read his books for the information, not poetry! When I was 19, in debt, with no assets and stuck at an $8 an hour job I noticed one of Roberts books on the business best seller list and decided to check it out. I was completely HOOKED and his works have changed my life. Had it not been for the way his books give you positive motivation and the "BIG PICTURE" of business, wealth, corporations and real estate, I would not know what to do with my life and still be dreaming of someday. As a 19 year old kid I had no idea what an entrepreneur really did, or what E/S/B/I quadrants were, how to examine a financial statement, or what cash flow was or even what the mysterious "corporation" was. After reading his books, the world was a completely different place to me. Now I understood why the CEO of the company could get rich AND get tax breaks to buy his $100,000 cars, while I just hoped for extra hours to keep making my $8. That's all I had going for me... not anymore! I feel so lucky to have found this information out early in my life, as many people are in their 40s and 50s and still don't know why incorporating can make you rich or why real estate is where most of the super-rich either make or store their money. People are controlled by businesses and land lords and they don't even know it... they keep paying the highest tax rate, they keep trying to pay off their house and they keep slaving away for their hourly wage or salary. They are blind to the way things run all around them, but luckily I can say I am not. I will never look at renting an apartment the same way again. I will never look at a credit card or a business the same way again. I will not confuse my car with an "asset" or my paycheck with "wealth." Roberts books were the spark that lead me to everything else. Had it not been for him giving me a clear view of the big picture, I would have been overwhelmed by typical nuts and bolts real estate investing books, nor would I have understood their significance. That is why I don't understand people complaining about the lack of substance... if you can't see the forest for the trees, how will the nitty gritty stuff help you? You have to have your basic plan first! That's what he teaches you. Thank-you Robert! Now at a mere 21 years old, since investing my time in Roberts amazing series, I have bought an $8,000 piece of land which I can actively improve in at least 3 ways (for under $500 each) for only $3,000 cash (you make money when you buy, not when you sell) creating the first real chunk of net-worth in my young life. Within 12 months I plan to buy either a duplex or a four-plex for me an my fiancées first home, to learn how to be a good property manager and creating cash-flow and passive income instead of working for all of my money. I have also been laid off from work and with the benefits I took the opportunity to start my own online business, selling my artwork, which grows monthly. I realize that puts me in the S quadrant and not the B quadrant, but it is teaching me valuable business skills (such as marketing) while also giving me an extra $500-$800 a month that I can make myself, in my spare time without reporting to an employer. Robert is right in that it's so much easier to teach new ideas to the young, which is why we should all teach our children the ideas in these books, the cynicism and excuses that come with years of bitterness haven't choked all the wonderful open-mindedness out of you yet! I was also so excited about the ideas in this book, that I made friends with some people in the Houston area who had the Cashflow game, and introduced my fiancée to Roberts ideas with the fun of playing! Once he saw what you could do in the game and how it applied to real life, we can't wait to get our own copy of the game and play it with each other as well as to apply the ideas to our own lives. We are both in it together, and he isn't just my lover and best friend, but my business partner as well. Now I feel like Robert and Kim must have in the early years ... there really is no joy in wealth if you don't have someone to share it with. Truly through real estate and business I see a rich future for myself, which I would have never known without Roberts books. I will never be afraid of loosing a dead-end $8 job which I need to make ends meet again, because I know my wealth comes from within. Thanks again Robert, Elizabeth A
Houston
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