Rich Dad Poor Dad
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Author | Robert Kiyosaki |
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Sprache | Englisch |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Warner Books Ed |
Publication date | 2000 April 1 |
Publication place | USA |
Media type | Hardback & Paperback |
Pages | 207 |
ISBN | ISBN 0-446-67745-0 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is Robert Kiyosaki's first best-selling book. In it, he advocates financial independence by means of investing, real estate, owning businesses, and the use of finance protection tactics.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is written in what is meant to be an entertaining anecdotal manner to make finances interesting. [citation needed] The most central element stressed by Kiyosaki is the advocacy of owning the system or means of production, rather than being an employee of someone else.
Summary
The book takes the form of a story. It is largely based on Kiyosaki's own upbringing and education in Hawaii, although the degree of fictionalization is disputed. Because of the heavy use of allegory, some readers believe that Kiyosaki created Rich Dad as an author surrogate (a literary device), discussed further in the criticism section below. Many readers believe that the "Rich Dad" in the book, is actually the founder of the "ABC convenient stores" which are found in the most populated areas of a number of the islands of Hawaii.
The Poor Dad in the story is based on Kiyosaki's real father, a PhD holder and graduate of Stanford, Chicago, and Northwestern University, all on full scholarship, who was the head of the Education department of the state of Hawaii. In the book, he is greatly respected until he decides, late in his career, to take a stand on principle against the governor of Hawaii. This leads directly to Poor Dad losing his job, and his inability to find comparable work ever again. Because he has never learned to handle money, instead depending on the government (his employer) for support, he dies in severe debt.
In contrast to this character is Rich Dad, his best friend Michael's father. Rich Dad dropped out in 8th grade, but became a self-made multi-millionaire regardless. He teaches Kiyosaki and Michael a variety of financial lessons, and insists that the boys learn to make money work for them to avoid spending their whole lives working for money, like Rich Dad's employees, as well as Poor Dad, and indeed most of the people in the world.
Anthony Robbins holds a seminar called 'Wealth Mastery' and one of the keynote speakers is a gentleman called Keith Cunningham. During the seminar Cunningham claimed to be Kiyosaki's Rich Dad. This is highly unlikely not only because of the similarity in age between Cunningham and Kiyosaki, and Kiyosaki had stated in his books that Rich Dad had died in 1994. Some have claimed that Rich Dad was a person named Richard Kimi, the deceased founder of Sand and Seaside Hawaiian Hotels.
The book highlights the different attitudes to money, work and life of these two men, and how they in turn influenced key decisions in Kiyosaki's life.
Topics
Among some of the book's topics are:
- the value of financial intelligence
- that corporations spend first, then pay taxes, while individuals must pay taxes first
- that corporations are artificial entities that anyone can use, but the poor usually don't know how
Kiyosaki says the rich think differently in how they define simple words like assets and wealth, and how they fund their luxuries. He explains that he defines an asset as any item which produces income (such as rental property,including your personal home, stocks or bonds), and a liability as anything which produces expense (such as one's new widescreen TV, exercise machine, new garden tractor, motorcycle, computers, processed foods, swing sets, barbecue grill, tools, letting your property rundown and a new car every two years).
No one disputes that the rich buy "income-producing assets". Kiyosaki argues that the poor buy worthless items that they think are assets, which clearly do not earn anything, and may have no market value.
According to Kiyosaki, wealth is measured as the number of days the income from your assets will sustain you, and financial independence is achieved when your monthly income from assets exceeds your monthly expenses. Each dad had a different way of teaching their sons.
Quotations
- "Physical exercise improves health, mental exercise improves wealth, laziness destroys both."
- "A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset."
- "The only way to get out of the "Rat Race" is to prove your proficiency at both accounting and investing, arguably two of the most difficult subjects to master."
- "I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier."
- “Most people are poor because when it comes to investing, the world is filled with Chicken Littles running around yelling, ‘The sky is falling. The sky is falling.’”
- “Many of today's youth have credit cards before they leave high school, yet they have never had a course in money or how to invest it, let alone understand how compound interest works on credit cards.”
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Criticism
Chapters
- There is a Need
- Chapter One - Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- Chapter Two - The Rich Don't Work for Money
- Chapter Three - Why Teach Financial Literacy?
- Chapter Four - Mind Your Own Business
- Chapter Five - The History of Taxes and the Power of Corporations
- Chapter Six - The Rich Invent Money
- Chapter Seven - Work to Learn - Don't Work for Money
- Chapter Eight - Overcoming Obstacles
- Chapter Nine - Getting Started
- Chapter Ten - Still Want More?
References
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad - What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!, by Robert Kiyosaki & Sharon L. Lechter. Publisher - Warner Business Books / First published in 2000 / ISBN 0-446-67745-0
External links
- Robert Kiyosaki Home Page Kiyosaki's official website
- Kiyosaki's official Rich Dad's Coaching
- Why the Rich Get Richer, Kiyosaki's regular column on Yahoo! Finance
- Possible Info on 'Rich Dad' An anonymous commentator posts that "Rich Dad" was Richard Kimi' , of the Sand & Seaside Hotels in Hawaii
- "Why millions buy Rich Dad, Poor Dad's nonsense" from Slate
- "Inspired by Kiyosaki and sharing it" from cashrichdad
- John T Reed's analysis of the book
- Detailed summary of the book