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Summary: Worth the Money
Review: This book is purely motivational in nature. It will get you thinking about what you money is or is not doing for you. You'll want to invest before the book is through. The first chapter is somewhat slow, but the rest of the book keeps your interest and will run your highliter dry.
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Summary: Materialsm, pure and simple
Review: This is one sick capitalist puppy. Mr. Kiyosaki has so fully embraced the religion of money, he has forgotten some of the truly important things in life. I know its all been said before, but money really isn't everything. Certainly it's important - everything is easier when you don't have to worry about providing for your family, but when everything else, even spending money, is seen as secondary to accumulating it, I think a question of priorities should be posed.
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Summary: Expanded My Way of Thinking
Review: The book helped me think of many ways to help myself! Mr. Kiyosaki offered numerous examples and stories that helped me determine ways slightly alter my way of thinking to benefit my family financially.
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Summary: Concrete Financial Foundation
Review: Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a must for anyone who has never been taught the fundamentals of how money works. Robert's life story is written like a parable and it shows that true financial abundance is within your reach. While the nuts and bolts of actually building your fortune are not included (like a "How-To" book) this book can create the foundation to help you understand WHY the rich are rich, and the middle class and working poor are woefully underprepared by our school system to be financially self sufficient as adults. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who has ever had a dream of being truly financially set.
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Summary: Financial Knowledge can be more important than Career skills
Review: My bookshelves are filled to the brim with computer programming books: C++, Web development, etc. I have placed so much importance in always being very marketable and up to date and having job security, etc, but I think I have overdone trying to be so "smart" at computers. At 34, I have zero investments. This is because I have waited up to now before finally learning about this money stuff, thinking up to now that this growing field in the Internet would keep me employed as long as I focused on computer skills. I was flipping channels one night, and one of the commercials was Oprah's show that was going to air the next day. I taped it, bought Robert's book and my life has changed. I now realize that saving up for a down payment on a house now that I paid off my consumer debt was a BAD idea! I now realize that making my decisions on what to study each night should be based on building my asset column, NOT trying to impress employers with skills my resume. If you have nothing invested, and you think that owning a house is security, you'll think differently when you read this book.
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Summary: we must teach our kids about money
Review: This book was a good wake up call about how schools are failing kids by not teaching them about money. I also found the book SIMPLE MONEY SOLUTIONS very helpful in giving specific advice on how to teach kids from age 2 - 20 about money, allowances, first jobs, and credit cards. These two books make a complete combo for kids and money.
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Summary: Highly Questionable Hokum Repeated with Sysyphean Efficiency
Review: This book doesn't offer any evidence, only assertion and conjecture, to support the main thesis. In fact, most of what this book tells us that the rich teach their children is highly questionable hokum needlessly repeated. As for the great lessons designed to get us out of the rat race and onto the fast track: Did you know that it is better to have assets than liabilities? (This astounding point is made nine times.) Did you know that an asset is something that puts money in your pocket? Well, it is! That's why it is good to have assets. Get it? And guess what? The biggest liability most people have is taxes. This is because we are taxed on what we earn, what we buy and sell, what we own, and we are taxed when we die. So the author advised us to avoid taxes, but his method of writing off expenses in a private corporation is highly dubious. By his own admission, the author is a "terrible writer" (page 132), a statement I know to be true because I suffered through his book. If you need financial advice, go to a professional. If you wish to read about economics, read something intelligent like Peter Lynch's Beating the Street or Jack Schwager's Market Wizards or the Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing. And if you really want to understand the economic structure of our time, read the classics like John Maynard Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936)or Joseph A. Schumpeter's treatise on business cycles.
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Summary: I know the secrets !
Review: I read this in Korean Edition. I'm working at internet company which keeps Investment Advice Site. So i have seen many young riches. And i have always wondered the difference between i and them. This book helped to know the difference. And make me to decide to start investment.
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Summary: Financial Education
Review: I have often wondered why useful and relevant courses are not taught in our schools such as the importance of budgeting and balancing a checkbook, dangers of credit card debt, how compound interest works, and investment choices. I was pleased to discover in Rich Dad, Poor Dad that Robert Kiyosaki feels the same way. Education has not kept up with our rapidly changing world and Kiyosaki believes that the gap between the haves and have-nots in our society is widening. As his book and ideas get more media attention and widespread discussion, perhaps educators will take note and promote changes in school curricula to include courses leading to financial literacy. This book shows us how to have a money tree later in life by planting seeds -- investing money -- on assets as early in our working lives as possible. Kiyosaki exhorts us to learn the difference between an asset and a liability and then "concentrate . . . on only buying income-generating assets." This book is for readers looking for an early exit from the rat race who are open to suggestions and motivation from someone who has already done it.
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Summary: A Wonderful First Step Book
Review: This book is the first step to financial UTOPIA. The first step is to always open your mind to a pattern of thinking that challenges you. This book does that. Unfortunately for most families, parents don't teach to their children what this book teaches..MONEY ISSUES, because most people can't teach what they do not know. As a visionary 27 year old entreprenuer in New York City, this book is an excellent first step to gaining financial freedom. This (and How to Win Friends and Influence People) should be required reading for every school. This book presents the answers that I was looking for when taking economic courses in college, but all college taught was theory, not practical application.
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