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Summary: GREAT INSPIRATION!!
Review: This book is a must read for MBA students. I am finishing a MBA program now and this book really puts things into perspective. The only reason I am not giving it four stars is due to the quality of the writing. However, the simple points are like gold nuggets!
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Summary: Unlearn years of learning and gain your Financial Freedom.
Review: Mr. Kiyosaki opens your eyes to some very interesting ideas and makes you think out a plan for getting out of the rut. At first you get sad because you feel like "Hey, I've dug a whole and cant get out!". Then you realize that Mr. Kiyosaki is just giving you ideas on options to take and what path you take is up to you but that is better than not knowing and staying in a rut for the rest of your life.A great follow up book to this one is "Who Moved My Cheese".
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Summary: The Best $$ I've Spent in a LONG Time!
Review: I was first told about this book by a coworker. I then camehere to see what others had said about it. . . . So I took a chance. It arrived on a Tuesday. I thumbed through it quickly, and noticed the ad about the CASHFLOW game by the author. I also noticed the price...I told myself, "For that price, not a chance!" I started the book Wednesday morning. I finished it Thursday evening. It was excellent! A few of the ideas were things I practiced before reading the book, but the lessons really tie everything into a neat package. I was skeptical in the beginning, so I wasn't expecting the mind-opening experience I received. On a related note, the timing of my reading this book couldn't be more perfect. I recently got a new job with a significant increase in salary. Before reading this, I probably would have put the overflow into my savings account or something silly like that. Now, I have some REAL tools at my disposal to make my money work for me rather than the other way around. I'm planning to buy the Cashflow game for my wife and, especially, my children. Conventional wisdom says that $$ shouldn't change my life...but it did.
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Summary: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Review: I bought this book because the author was profiled on Oprah. I was extremely disappointed. The focus of the book is money and how it leads to power. The author disregards education as basically worthless. He gives examples of how his "Rich Dad" basically cheats people to get ahead. I thought it was an example of how to follow someone who has lost his moral integrity.
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Summary: Whets your appetite
Review: Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a great introduction to the psychology of creating wealth. If you're a financial genius, this isn't the book for you. However, if you're the average person who needs a little nudge in the right direction, this is a great primer! This book reads more like a novel than a financial manual because I believe the author wanted to make finances interesting for the masses. What I got from the book was a concise understanding of how to make money work for me and the motivation and confidence I needed to take action. Since I read this book, I have enrolled with an online stock broker. The motivation I've gained more than pays for the price of the book. Highly recommended for financial novices!
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Summary: Watch the Infomercial instead
Review: This book was not only poorly written and edited, but there was no real content. This was a typical infomercial, with the caveat that you buy his $200.00 game board -- that's what is really disturbing. Atleast Robbins and Ziglar are upfront with their stories. I would not waste the money on this book. Read anything but this.
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Summary: Must Read!
Review: I read the book in one day and was amazed at how much information was in there. The author does not mandate strict ways to become financially independent, rather he offers up some basic financial knowledge, gives you a road map and then lets you decide. An extensive recommended reading list provides a springboard to move forward. If this were required reading for high-school seniors, we would have a lot more wealthy people, regardless of what their income is.
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Summary: New to investing
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is appropriate for someone, like myself, who is new to investing. Also, it encourages me to teach my child to invest when he is older. It is very repetitious, but that is necessaary when teaching someone totally new to investing. Since my parents did not teach anything about investing or starting my own business, this book has been very motivational and ecouraging to me. I cannot even discuss my investments in front of my mother because she thinks that I am going to lose my hard earned money. But as the author repeats over and over again, I need to make money from my assets rather than rely on earned income exclusively. It is just the beginning to a lifetime of investing for me.
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Summary: Expect not too much
Review: The contents of this book will remind you of many similar ones. The original piece of it is what will make your reading so pleasant. Its sound advice is sometimes lost in verbose and lots of text with no aparent purpose. If you can get through that, then you may find the jewel in this book.
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Summary: Disappointing, very disappointing...
Review: Granted, I may already be ahead of the game as I am out of debt and own true assets, but I gleaned no information from this book other than the painfully obvious. The point driven home by this book (ad nausium) is that "money should work for you" instead of "you working for money". The point the author neglected to mention is that it takes considerable effort to get your money to work for you (nothing in life is free, you know). As a business owner, I know this all too well. Whether you work to make your money work for you, or you work to make money directly, the end result is the same, effort = money. The only valid point (again, obvious), is to not blow all of your money on "stuff". Instead, buy (money making) assets. There are an abundance of success stories in this book about how the author made lots of money with little effort, but he tells nothing of the countless hours of work that he put into investments that didn't pan out. On the same note, he mentions NOT ONE EXAMPLE of a failure. I beleive it is as important to know what NOT to do, as it is to know what TO do. Finally, the book read like a novel. When I read a book of this type, I expect it to be clear and concise (professional, if you will). It is ironic that one of the points that the author makes is to develop your communication skills! Two thumbs down.
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