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Summary: Would make a good magazine article
Review: This book was just plain painful to read. He's got about five decent points but takes a couple hundred pages to make them. I liked some of his concepts, even if they're out of reach of most americans. The information in the book is much better suited for a several page magazine article. Most of us don't need to hear the same thing said fifteen different ways! Of course, the author can't make much money writing magazine articles.
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Summary: A Primer To Stop Broke Thinking
Review: This was an absolutely awesome book. Some of the concepts are already well known but the authors found a way to make these truths jump out and grab you. I read it , my wife read it, I'm bribing my 16 year old to read it and I will read it to my 9 year olds. I have also recommended this to most of the partners in my group. A good book to read after this would be The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason.
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Summary: I finally found a way to tell it to my kids......
Review: I am a begining practitioner of this philosophy...it works, the kids seem to think my wife and I are a "money tree", maybe we are, however, this book explains the roots, care, feeding and harvesting of fruit from that tree...an easy read for the beginner, concise and informative, not complicated nor ho-hum boring, nice analogy....now if the recipe works, we shall see.
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Summary: You Can't Afford Not to Buy This Book
Review: This book has changed my life. If you don't have the money to buy this book, borrow it. You'll never be the same. It's written in an easy conversational style that uses plain simple language to help understand finances. Buy it today.
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Summary: THE TRUE AWAKENING
Review: THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK WERE SO POWERFUL IT DID TURN MY WORLD UPSIDE DOWN. FOR THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAS WRITTEN THE TRUTH ABOUT MONEY AND HOW TO LEVERAGE WITH IT! I AM 28 AND HAVE BEEN INVESTING IN STOCKS FOR 4 YEARS NOW, MADE QUITE A BIT OF MONEY AS WELL AS SPENT QUITE A BIT MORE ONLY TO WORK HARDER TO MAKE MORE. ROBERTS BOOK HAS CLEARED THE AIR OF CONFUSION WITH PLAIN AND SIMPLE TRUTH. I FOCUSED ON MY NET WORTH, BOY WAS I MISLED. TODAY I FOCUS ON MY TOTAL ASSETS! IF ALL YOU HAVE IS $20.00 IN YOUR POCKET, BUY THIS BOOK, IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND GIVE YOU THE KNOWLEGDE TO BE FINANCIALY EDUCATED AS WELL AS THE ONLY OUTLOOK YOU WILL NEED. I SWEAR THIS BOOK CONTAINS SIMPLE TRUTHS THE COMPANY YOU ARE WORKING FOR WOULD PAY FOR YOU NOT TO LEARN! A TRUE AWAKENING, THANK YOU SINCERELY ROBERT. A FAN AND READER FOR LIFE, LAWRENCE GILES
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Summary: Good book ... here are some others.
Review: If you want to know about how to achieve financial independence, your best bet is to hang around people who have, or are in the process of, achieving financial independence. Kiyosaki has hit on a key point -- the reason the rich teach different things to their kids than poor people do is simple: they KNOW those things by experience. A poor person can not teach you how to attain financial independence. All they can teach you is how to be broke. So stop listening to your broke co-workers and your broke neighbors and the broke people at your church or temple and listen to, and read books by, people who have achieved success, and who are focused on the positive possibilities of the future. And have an open mind -- if you aren't wealthy and someone is trying to tell you how to get there, the smartest thing you can do is shut up and listen. (I teach broke people how to leverage the Web to make money -- more than half of them know nothing about it, but tell me everything about why I'm wrong.) Two good books you should read if you liked this one: The Roaring 2000s, by Harry Dent, and "Don't Worry, Make Money," by Richard Carlson.
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Summary: Excellent book if you want freedom from the rat race!
Review: This is one of the best books I have read in a long time
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Summary: A wake-up call to middle-class america !
Review: Thank you so much Robert Kiyosaki! After an eye-opening layoff back in '93, & several periods of involuntary unemployment while "between contracts" since, I've been forced to undergo a growth process & reconsider my approach to business & finance. Ultimately, I've learned to think like an entrepreneur rather than an employee in order to survive in today's new economy. People don't use logic when it comes to handling their business. They live life being bounced back & forth like a ping-pong ball between 2 emotions -- fear & greed. That's why they spend 40+ years of their lives in a cubicle working for money, instead of 5-10 years, in tandem with financial intelligence, having money work for them. Both of these emotions can be harnessed & used constructively -- but only with a properly educated & disciplined mind. Unfortunately, such mental powers are right-brain rather than left-brain oriented. And the "traditional" education system does not "go there". Nor are such capabilities taught at home -- as middle-class America can't give away something that it does not possess. Most people over 65 are BROKE, end of story. And these are the same people who taught us growing up & all thru school. Only 8% of these people can stop working and maintain their current lifestyle -- the rest of them have the government, pensions and relatives to fall back on. And, for those people under 40, who think that SS, pensions and peak-earning-years relatives will be around for them too -- get a big lunch, babe! We've followed their advice: get highly educated, work hard, save & invest; and thus, we've grown up to be just like them. We invest in liabilities that we think are assets, and we pay everybody else before we pay ourselves, instead of afterward. We're TAXED when the money is earned, TAXED when the money is spent, TAXED in capital gains when what little we do manage to keep grows in the "asset column" of our balance sheet. And much of the remainder of our capital gains is negated by INFLATION. Over a 40-year career, given that we stay in a linear income (hours for dollars) arrangement, better than half of that time -- 26 years -- will be spent either working for the government in the form of taxes or banks in the form of interest on our debt. We'll spend most of our lives trying to put a $5 bill where a $50 bill needs to go. It's time to start thinking outside of the box. The world is leaving us behind.
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Summary: Should be required reading for High Schoolers
Review: This book will be especially helpful to young people with their career and life planning. Give a copy to everyone you know who has pre-college kids. Coupled with his follow-up work, The Cashflow Quadrant, it explores the issues of money and life in a balanced way and gives people of all ages an idea of what effects their choices will have on their life. This kind of knowledge can save years of trial and error and lead to a much happier, more fulfilling life. I also recommend his board games as a fun way to practice the principals from the books.
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Summary: SHEESH!
Review: I remember the key premise of this book being uttered by Claire Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," when Vanessa's friends called her "a little rich girl." Attorney Huxtable, wife of the good Dr. Huxtable, sat Vanessa down and said "Honey, we are not rich; rich is when your money works for you, not when you work for your money." Well, duh! I think that the best way to get rich in America today is to write a book based on some premise that anyone with half a brain should already know!
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