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Summary: The possibility of wealth.
Review: This book is a primer in basic personal finance and in moving from making a living to becoming wealthy. Instead of working for money, Kiyosaki states adamantly, your money should be working for you. The book is filled with examples, anecdotes, and simple diagrams to illustrate each of Kiyosaki's lessons on being wealthy. Most of the examples revolve around the contrast in financial approaches between Rich Dad (Kiyosaki's childhood friend's father) and Poor Dad (Kiyosaki's own father.) Among the many valuable ideas in this book, I particularly appreciated Kiyosaki's emphasis on the need to include "financial literacy" in our basic educational system. I was also struck by the author's repeatedly stressing the need to be open to new ideas and taking risks rather than just playing it safe. "Listening is more important than talking," he writes. I agree, and I have also found "WORKING ON YOURSELF DOESN'T WORK" by Ariel and Shya Kane to be an excellent resource to discovering great wealth in every sense of the word. I am grateful to these authors for showing people what is possible and encouraging them to go for it.
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Summary: Beyond the investments hints
Review: This book is an outstanding and remarkable hit. The style is simple so every kind of reader could understand. The theme is treated with professionalism and a flavour of common sense dominate it. More than investments hints the book try to lead you to overcome work frustrations, finantial crisis and the efects of those problems. The author take the reader and place him into a new context, a one of deal with life. How to invest is not the main point. The strongest point is to develop the power to think about how money can work for people. If you are looking for a book that overcome the traditional style. If you need some kind of advice about how to change your personal finantials problems, learning how to use the common sense. If you want to lear how to think in a powerful way and make things work for you...this is the book. Try it!
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Summary: Basic but interesting
Review: Just finished the book and found it to be intersting and may have motivated me to search into other topics and strategies for investing. However, I felt the book was oversimplified, repetitve and mis-leading.
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Summary: Too Basic, Repeats itself
Review: Written way too basic for what it sells itself to be.The first two chapters sums up the whole book. There are no, I repeat No specific detailed examples of how or what to do. Only generalizations here!
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Summary: Good Book to start learning
Review: This book has some excellent conversation explaining the mindset of the rich people. I would definately recommend this book who dare to dream big. I would also recommend another book Millionaire's mind to you.
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Summary: A motivating must have for all
Review: I couldn't put this book down and I read it in just two days. It is written in a easy to follow style and format. No prior knowledge base is required. The author is repetitive at times, but the fact that he is, I feel, just helps drive the points in this book home. Most people spend so much of their life finding reasons why they can't get ahead that most readers need a few extra pages of reassurance to help them believe that they can succeed. The book describes, in a laymen's fashion, how to ensure that you do not go through life doing nothing but acquiring liabilities, and describes the basic thought patterns of the rich and successful. This book shows, when it all comes down to it, being rich is just a state of mind. Because "Rich Dad" started explaining these principals to two nine year old boys, the concepts are not hard to follow. Basic cash flow diagrams are shown, and the definitions of an asset and a liability are explained. You may be surprised when Mr. Kiyosaki challenges the notion that your house is the biggest asset you have. In a country with an ever-growing gap between the "haves" and "have-nots", this book serves as accounting and investing 101, and as a way to make up for most peoples lack of financial education and training.
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Summary: RICH DADS? HA!
Review: Let's face it, rich Dads don't buy books like this. Pretty funny, eh!
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Summary: Annoying and extremely overrated
Review: Ok, Kiyosaki has a point but it doesn't take a book to make his point clear. Basically he says, buy assets and don't buy liabilities. and don't spend money on unnecessary luxuries before your cash flow can cover for these luxuries. how do you create these excess cash flows? by real estate and stocks and mutual funds. for an average middle class 9 to 5 worker, he basically says, stay in your job and buy real estate on the side and he adds, don't forget to look for IPO opportunities because that's where he made money along with his real estate business.
This is the whole argument kiyosaki presents but he spends a whole book repeating this point over and over and over again. Book is terribly written -- many spelling errors (which are really annoying to me) and grammar mistakes. and the kiyosaki's insights are pretty lame and dull and pretty obvious. don't waste time reading this book and look for better, insightful books -- i am sure there are many!
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Summary: Read It But Don't Buy It!
Review: I had heard of this book but did not have any inclination to buy it. Then a couple of weeks ago I got stuck in Penn Station for an hour because a train broke down in one of the tunnels. Passing the time in Penn Books, I saw this book prominently displayed and giving the cover a quick read, decided to purchase it. I wil start out with what is good about this book. Kiyosaki repeatedly points out that too many Americans are essentially financial illiterates, which I would have to agree with. He talks about the need to educate yourself by reading books and attending seminars about investing in the stock market or in real estate. This I have resolved to do, and if I got anything at all from Rich Dad, Poor Dad, it was the inspiration to educate myself about these things, which I have begun to do. That being said, this book is shoddily written and edited. I spotted numerous grammar and spelling errors. I have read critics of Kiyosaki who say that much of what he says regarding real estate investing and corporations has a shaky legal foundation. One critic even set forth a convincing case that Kiyosaki was not particularly wealthy until he started turning out all of his Rich Dad Poor Dad books. Apparently he was even homeless for a while in the 1980's. In summary, I would say borrow this book from the library, use it to get yourself fired up about the prospect of investing in stocks and real estate, return the book to the library, and then buy books from recognized experts in these fields and follow their advice.
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Summary: Only good if you haven't read anything else
Review: While this is a pleasant book, the stories are not exactly believable, a little longer than they need to be, and not necessarily applicable to most people's real life.
There are better financial management books, real estate books, and 'life philosophy' books.
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