Rich Dad's Rich Kid, Smart Kid Abridged

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Summary: Never Again
Review: This book has indeed good advice about how to "help" parents help their own children become success full. Kiyosaki says he wants to give parents advice on how to give their children a head start in life but I believe he really wants them to teach them the way he was taught so they can become wealthy like him. I will only recommend this book to parents who are lazy to figure out on their own how to raise their children in the world of success.

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Summary: A Great Start For Today's Finanicial Strategies.
Review: Reading "Rich Kid Smart Kid" is the most helpful financial book I have read so far. Robert has done it. A book that is easily comprehendible and most educational book doesn't come that often. The only thing I didn't like about the book is that he was too redundant. He kept talking about same thing over and over and over again. he also mentioned his "Rich Dad Poor Dad" book one too many times. I feel it wasn't necessary to talk about his other books this much.

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Summary: Financial headstart
Review: Robert kiyosaki is a talented entrepreneur. This book offers a lot of advice to those parents who did not have the chance to grow up with wealthy parents. It teaches them the basics of the rich mind. Many people think that by getting a raise, or having a slightly better job will make them richer. What they don't know is that you have to make money work for you. Little bits of information are constantly repeated throughout the book in order to get the message across. Robert also criticizes the public school system for only teaching certain students with certain talents, rather than teaching students who may have different learning habits. The only thing that sets this book back is the fact that it has constant repetition.

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Summary: Bill Gates or Richard Branson never needed this book
Review: If you have an entreprenurial instinct, this is a quick reading that won't really help you that much. The only thing I found useful is to help you understand that you need to delegate because everyone has their weakness in certain areas. Young technical-oriented entreprenuers tend to try to do too much on their own sometimes that they forgot the importance of delegating the task.

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Summary: Rich Kid Smart Kid
Review: I enjoyed this book overall. There were some positive and negative elements in Rich Kid Smart Kid. The positive was that this book had some good advice and ideas that were not conventional, but could still be taught to children. Some negative aspects of the book were the parts when Kiyosaki refferenced to Rich Dad Poor Dad. This was not good becuase if you didn't read Rich Dad Poor Dad you were a little in the dark, as I was. The book did give a good basic stratagie to makin money. He stressed the idea that you should make your money work hard for you, one way to do this is putting your money in assets and not liablities. Overall I enjoyed the book and i would recommen it to find out about how to make your money make you money.

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Summary: Rich Kid, Smart Kid
Review: In Rich Kid Smart Kid, Robert T. Kiyosaki does a really good job of making a blue print for parents as to how to prepare their children for the world. I thougt the book was very well done, explains everything in a very simple way, and overall an interesting book to read. I read Rich Kid, Poor Kid also by Robert T. Kiyosaki, finding it to be a good read, and feel that this book is another accomplishment for this author.

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Summary: Oh....My.....God.....How.......Boring.....
Review: This book had everything single detail in it, except the fact that the book was not interesting. I recommend that if you were going to read this book, that you should read Kiyosaki's other book, Rich Dad Poor Dad. Rich Kid Smart Kid is a theory that Kiyosaki presents to the reader. He claims that when every person is born into human life, that person is automatically rich and smart in a certain way. My personal opinion is that this book should be read by adults who have children of their own. By reading this book, it will give them tips on how to invest in their children's future.

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Summary: Informative but Boring
Review: The overlapping theme of the book is that money should work for you, you should not work for money. Kiyosaki provides some fundamental ways in which a parent can teach their child how to become rich. Some of the book's strategies are quite interesting, however, Kiyosaki is a businessman and not a writer. The book was sometimes confusing and boring, and his charts failed to aid me. If you have patience and time, and want good strategies, read it.

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Summary: Teenager mirrors "Rich Dad's" strategies
Review: Unlike Mr. Kiyosaki, I did not grow up under the wings of a Rich Dad or Poor Dad. Even though I hadn't read "Rich Dad Poor Dad", the author reiterated the important points that would apply to the understanding of his discussions in this book. I read it with the purpose of obtaining insight into how children learn and think. In turn I have mentored my seven year old brother. The 'three piggy bank' savings stratergy provided me with a good way to trigger his financial head start. The personal narration created a comfortable and "friend-like" ambient for me. Through the anecdotes I was able to critically think and analyze economical situations. Many of the diagrams such as the ones on bank interest, loans, and mortgage helped me visualize the relationship between financial players. The author's definitions of 'key' words also allowed my 'mind to see what my eyes could not'. I can honestly say that this book has contributed to the guidance I seeked in order to help my brother "achieve his full potential in life".

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Summary: Rich Kid Smar Kid
Review: I think that this is an informative book for parents. It presents many good ideas about learning and the lack of real life education provided by traditional education. It was somewhat boring for someone who is not really interested in money. It was annoying that the author assumed that you have all ready read his other books and that he was pushing his other products through out the book. I would also say that this book would be more effective if read by parents. If read parents will without a doubt have the upper hand in helping mold there children into self-confident, financially smart individuals. I would recommend this book for people who are interested in strengthening there financial potential in life.