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Summary: I love the CD's
Review: As great as the book is, the information from Rich Dad Poor Dad really comes to life on the cd. I am more of an auditory learner so listening makes learning easier for me. I played this cd audio for 21 days straight untill Kiyosaki's words became my words. I have the book too, but the cd's really rock. Read the book but listen to the cd audio as well. You'lll earn faster and since this is the subject of wealth, doesn't it make sense to maximize your learning? Yeah! I knew you would agree. Great book and cd program.
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Summary: My favorite for over a decade
Review: Robert T. Kiyosaki has been my favorite financial author since I purchased If You Want To Be Rich & Happy Don't Go To School back in 1993. At that time I was newly laid off (downsized became the new terminology) and found that all my years of education could not find me meaningful work. The situation got even worse during the 90's as America saw the biggest downsizing in corporate America's history. Very soon, Americans realized that the words "job" and "security" didn't go together. I bought Rich Dad Poor Dad many years later, but, If You Want To Be Rich And Happy Don't Go To School was the book that got me started and none too soon. By following Kiyosaki's advice, I invested in rental properties, stocks and started my own business and never looked back. Rich Dad Poor Dad is a excellent book. I highly recommend this and any book by Kiyosaki that you can get your hands on.
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Summary: Strictly A Motivational Book - Nothing More
Review: After reading this book in March 2003, I was pumped and hyped. Kiyosaki and Lechter do a great job of making you feel like you can achieve anything when reading this book. As a motivational book to make you want to do something more in your life, this book is excellent. Unfortunately, that's all this book is - a motivational work of fiction. Kiyosaki is from Hawaii and so am I. Without any prior knowledge of Kiyosaki, his writings seem to indicate he grew up in the Waipahu area (actually Hilo) and in a state that is as small as Hawaii, a "Rich Dad" who grew his company into one of the biggest empires in the islands is sure to be someone known in the islands - especially if that Rich Dad came from sleepy Hilo. As much as I wanted to believe in Kiyosaki, something kept nagging at me and I started to do some research into him. He practically hates Hawaii and in an interview with Hawaii Business magazine Kiyosaki equates his Rich Dad to Harry Potter. Further research seems to reveal that Kiyosaki's wealth is not from great real estate deals but rather his motivational books and seminars ($5000 per person). John T. Reed has an interesting website that seems to reveal that Kiyosaki has only done a couple of real estate deals that combined total nowhere near the amount he has claimed in the books. For me, it's things like this that send the red flags. Integrity and credibility in writing and it seems that Kiyosaki is weak on those points, which places everything he writes into question. If he fabricates details of the Rich Dad and his deals, then how much else is a fabrication? Read Kiyosaki's book for the motivational drive, not for factual information. In fact, some of the things he suggests in the book are under serious scrutiny with Corporate Governance regulations and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. I give this book a one star because of the integrity and credibility questions.
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Summary: no excuss for being broke
Review: for a book to possess such a creative and potential philosophy in literay art, is superbulously out of this planet, not just a prose but practical knowledge of money making and the spending rules. the book as centered on self management explores the secret of missmanagement and embezzlement. the rich was prudent in spending while the poor dad wasnt thinking big and has remained poor while being dependent. unlike the latter, the former was employing people instead of being employed. this book will reveal the Blueprint in Cost and Management Economic system to you as you begin to quantify and understand its contents. but obviously on a critical angle, the auther has no such regards for academic intellectuality, he only trust his business and such never respect education. this is becasue he believes in money first. to him being a graduate doesnt apply when it comes to making the cash. you can only understand a book better when you read it yourself than a mere narration, that's just the saltless meal. take the meal proper. cheers as you read on. what a book! he's a thinker.
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Summary: An enlightening novel
Review: ~This is one of the most enlightening books I have read in the three years I have spent at college, and it was one I was not assigned to read. Robert Kiyosaki's book taught me some common myths about becoming rich. People can work hard all their lives, with high levels of education, and never become rich. The difference between the rich and the poor and middle class is that the rich buy assets while the poor and middle class buy liabilities. If you read this book, which I recommend, you won't~~ ever forget that sentence. He mentions it a few times. He tells some of his successes, and the strategy behind becoming rich. He does not necessarily tell you what you have to do to become rich directly, but he outlines the principles. I also like his writing style, which had me laughing at several points throughout the novel. I especially recommend this book to any young people who don't want to have to work their entire lives. I like the book, I like his writing style, and I am about~~ to read the rest of his books. I recommend him.~
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Summary: Optimize your mind and optimize your wealth
Review: Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the most motivating books on financial freedom I have read. Kiyosaki makes a clear case for the acquisition of income producing assets. He believes that the single most powerful asset we have is our mind and that it doesn't matter where we start, it is how to best proceed that counts. Since reading this book, I have increased my net worth by $230K, more than tripling my financial performance. I also attribute this remarkable growth to another book, Optimal Thinking: How To Be Your Best Self which many reviewers had recommended. Optimal Thinking is the mental software to make the most of opportunities and resources and minimize obstacles. Buy both of these books to give yourself the best chance of having everything you want.
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Summary: Well worth reading with no downside
Review: I really enjoyed this program. I bought the book and the tape at the same time. Rich Dad Poor Dad is well worth your time with no downside risk. And I can relate very well to Mr. Kiyosaki. I well remember discussions my parents had with our family when I was 9 and younger. Our parents really drove the need to be financially responsible and we had an uncle who was an entrepneneur and drove the entrepneneurship philosophy. I can can still hear Uncle Sam saying; "Whatever you do kids, make sure you go in business for yourselves. No employer will ever pay you as well as you will pay yourselves." Uncle Sam also emphasized saving 10% of what we made. Giving 10% to our church and taking another 10% and using that for capital money to expand our business. We were taught this as 9 years olds. For that reason, I and my 2 brothers and 1 sister have been self employed since graduating from college. My parents and my Uncle Sam both emphasized education. Although it has taken a major portion of my life to unlearn what the teachers told us and use what really works. What Kiyosaki says about a house not being an aseet is also true. Fortunately, I never got caught up in keeping up with the Joneses. I own a home. Enjoyed nice appreciation but have fared far better with the rentals that I own than with the home that we live in. I have also made 1,000% plus returns in stocks (small cap stocks as Mr.Kiyosaki recommends) and didn't have to deal with points, fees and other nonsense that banks charge. Owning rental properties has also offered me tremendous tax benefits so I agree 100% with Kiyosaki in recommending real estate as an investment. The problem with home ownership is that people are investing all their money in their home and constantly tied to a job to pay for it. Then you have the points and fees. Sure their are tax benefits but after all costs are included it's like paying a dollar to get 30 cents back. Not a winning strategy. Conversely, you can live in a smaller home and take the cash that you would be paying for that bigger home, the alligator and use that to buy rental properties, small cap stocks, invest in your own business etc to generate cash flow now. As far as appreciation, you can earn those kinds of appreciation immediately in rental properties if you buy right. As I understand Kiyosaki, he is not against owning a home as long as you realize that it is more of a liability than an asset. I have turned my home into more of an asset by taking advantage of tax benefits of a home based business and renting out a room that we no longer use. Rich Dad Poor Dad is an excellent book. I am as grateful to Mr. Kiyosaki for sharing these ideas as I am to my parents and my Uncle Sam for reering me and my family to correct financial strategies when we were as little as 9 years old.
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Summary: Eye opener
Review: This book is not about giving solutions, recipies and such. It merely shows the way for some people who want to take a different path in life, make a change. Some things are so much "common sense" and ordinary that you need someone to remind you of them - like, for a self employed, income stops when they stop working. I enjoyed the contents of the book (the writing is not stellar) and it made me want to take more control of my financial life.
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Summary: possibly worth reading, with caveats
Review: The concepts expressed in this book seemed self-evident to me, which is why at 47, I have only worked a few years of my life. The principal concept is that working for others is basically a fool's game, in that employees by definition are exploited, because employers must make a profit off of each employee. While a very few employees can make more money employed than working for themselves, this percentage is so small it is not worth discussing further. Employees also have no control over their futures, in that they can be fired at any time. In the beginning of the book, the author relates a conversation with his "rich dad" when he was nine years old. This "conversation" is almost certainly fictitious, in that no nine year old has the cognitive development necessary to engage in abstract discussions about money and finances, not to mention that a nine year old's attention span is about three seconds. We are also expected to believe that the author recalled this extensive conversation in minute detail 40 years later. One of the principal points made in the book is that your home is a liability rather than a asset. While this can be true if someone manages their finances poorly, it is often simply false. Think about how much homes have appreciated in the United States in the last 15 years. I will soon sell my home for more than 20 times what I paid for it. The author also discusses the necessity of reducing taxes by such means as incorporating yourself, etc. However, the capital gains deduction for your own home is a key way to reduce or eliminate taxes. This deduction is $250,000 for singles, $500,000 for married couples. For example, if you buy a home, renovate it while living in it for at least two years and then sell it, a couple could theoretically make $250,000 per year tax free. Not bad. However, this concept is apparently lost on the author, although real estate enriches more people than any other means. The author recommends that people should purchase income-producing assets, but of course this is much easier said than done. The real reason the average person never achieves wealth is that they are simply living in debt, spending more than they are earning, putting little or nothing away to invest. Eliminating debt that most people simply take for granted such as credit card debt, home equity loans, auto loans, etc. is essential before most people can start creating wealth. Children also should be viewed as financial liabilities, although society tends to frown on this point of view. Personally, I believe people need to achieve financial security before having children, particularly when each child will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars before they leave the home. While the book does not give any specifics about how one can achieve such financial security, it nevertheless can help someone to start thinking outside of the box in regard to their financial future. Why these concepts are such a revelation that the book became a number one best-seller and has prompted all these five-star reviews is beyond me. I just wish I would of thought of it first.
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Summary: Happy Thanksgiving Rich Dad and Thank You :-) (-:
Review: I bought Rich Dad Poor Dad along with Cash Flow Quadrant earlier this year and these books have made a profound difference our families lives. Words cannot express our heartfelt appreciation to Mr. Kiyosaki for sharing these tremendous strategies and of course Kiyosaki's Rich Dad for sharing them with RTK. We also feel for RTK's real dad--his poor dad who Mr. Kiyosaki shows tremendous love for and enabled RTK to learn much from and share with us all. For more good reading I suggest Cash Flow Quadrant, Rich Dad's Prophecy and Rich Dad's Success Stories.
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