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Summary: A Great book for the Open Mind
Review: This book is one of Kiyosaki's best. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" opens your mind to something never discussed before but seems so obvious. "Cashflow Quadrant" helps explain the way that Kiyosaki views the world; but "Retire Young Retire Rich" is the best book yet. All the poor reviews I've read so far have either attacked his writing as a person or have attacked the lack of concrete evidence of numbers. In every book so far he has said that he will not give the concrete numbers but will show you how to open your mind. So many people believe that they have an open mind but it's merely vacant. He doesn't offer a plan to get rich but the way he was thinking in order to become fabulously wealthy. In the beginning it talks about expanding your context so that it can except more content. Saying I can't do that or it can't be done is having a fools context. I'm only 21 and have invested in stocks, and I am about to close on my first real estate investment as a college student. The younger minds are much more free to the beauty of such thinking. If you're looking for other books to read Kiyosaki does offer many books besides his own at the end of "Cashflow Quadrant" If you'll notice throughout "Retire Young Retire Rich" he mentions his plan of buying two homes every year for the next ten years. That planning in my personal belief came from a prior book written in the early 80's called "Creating Wealth" by Robert G Allen. He also mentions "How to Make Money in Stocks" by William J Oneil. These are all fabulous books to read. So to all the bad reviewers who found no value to this book, your context is too small to except the content that this book is giving you. The wealth of information is immeasureable. I also own Cashflow 101 the game and have played with numerous other people and have seen the difference in the way people trully think. The five Rich Dad series books are wonderful and provide insight to the next. The game is expensive but I have found the true fountain of youth in my mind. Thank You Robert.
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Summary: Nationally recognized CPA endorses it as a MUST buy!
Review: If you are on a quest for financial literacy, this is a must buy foundation book for your treasure chest. This is Robert Kiyosaki at his finest. Skip the drivel from the ignorant naysayers who carp about the author's writing skills. They are right, it's not scholarly. Thank goodness! I'm a member of MENSA but personally, I prefer it like it is - readable.In Retire Young, Retire Rich, Kiyosaki is hitting his stride. This book is smoother and more advanced than his past books. So much so, that I strongly recommend that you read Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Cashflow Quadrant first. I found it so thought provoking that it was hard to read more than a few pages at a time without going "Ah-Ha!" and mentally zooming off to ideas on how I could apply it, right now, today. In 1980, I graduated at the top of my class and I've spent over twenty years developing my financial knowledge base. But I can tell you, I've learned more from Kiyosaki about the fundamentals of financial literacy than from any other single influence. I heartily recommend that you read this book.
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Summary: A Great Book to Read If You Want to Retire Rich and Young!
Review: I was so excited when I first read this book and I am still excited after reading it two years later. It is great to have a book that goes through a personal story and then tells you how you can apply the ideas in your life in many different ways. Robert and Sharon did well with this one. If you want to build a future for yourself outside of the rat race, this book is a must read.
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Summary: The power of leverage
Review: Like some other reviewers have noted, I initially looked at Retire Young Retire Rich with ambiquity feeling that it would just be a rehash of the first three books. No so. RYRR is 21 chapters and 338 pages packed with powerful information that you won't find in any of Kiyosaki's other books. This book is primarily about the power of leverage. It demonstrates hoe Kiyosaki started with nothing and retired financially free in less than ten years. Kiyosaki further breaks the book down into three sections: -The leverage of your mind -The leverage of your plan -The leverage of your actions How important is leverage? In quoting his Rich Dad, Kiyosaki states; "People without leverage work for those with leverage." Leverage is one of the secrets of the rich. It is how Kiyosaki was able to start without money and amass a fortune...and how you can too. I highly recommend RYRR, that is if you would like to retire young and rich. Work smarter instead of harder. Good reading and good luck!
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Summary: A change of mind
Review: This book is good for people who doubt whether or not getting wealthy in life is easy. It's all a matter of the right mind set. When people hear that it's about the state of mind they're in, they tend to blow it off thinking they've heard 'that' before. This book tells you why you need to change your thinking and how to go about doing it.
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Summary: An enlightening novel
Review: This is the novel that did it for me. It is the third novel of Robert T. Kiyosaki's that I have read. I also have read Rich Dad Poor Dad, and Cashflow Quadrant. The first two books were exciting to read, the information in them is priceless. But this is the book where I finally realized the power of what I think. There is one particular line that I remember especially, First identify what I am afraid of, then ask myself what I want instead, then ask myself how to get it. As he says repeatedly, it is not the content that matters as much as the context. I don't know if I really understand all the stuff about leverage. But what is more important than that, is that I limit me. My thoughts limit what I do, and they also allow me to retire young and rich. I don't know how someone can't like these books unless they are a cynic, arrogant, or lazy. I encourage you to buy this book and read it. And then read it again like I am going to do.
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Summary: IT'S ALL IN THE MIND, SO TRUE
Review: Of all the RICH DAD books this is my most favorite.
Why? Simply because we've got someone who can walk the talk, telling us that most of the resistance we experience in making money is our own limitations. It didn't make sense when I was working a day job. Sounded like a bunch of huey, really, but, once I started down the entrepreneurial path, that all changed. I'm in total agreement. Most of the limitations Americans experience with wealth is all in their heads. That said, for those willing to take a deep look in themselves and who are willing to grow, this is one of the best books on the matter. Highlights included: (1) The most expensive advice is free advice b/c the wrong advice can destroy you. How many times do we take advice from next door neighbors about stocks when they know nothing, or, almost nothing? What does this have to do with mental limitations. Plenty. The people we associate with or want to believe can hold us back if their advice isn't accurate. I wouldn't take advice from journalists on TV, who make less than 100k yet give advice on the stock market daily, would you? Well, lots of people do listen to them.; (2) The power of expanding one's reality. How many things do we feel are not true yet are? Wasn't their a time when we believed man could not fly and now we can fly?; (3) Why do most of us not have a financial plan? Why do we rely on the govt to take care of us? Why do we choose to not have a long term plan?; (4) Why the language we use restricts us even if we choose to believe it. If we say CANNOT or SOMEDAY how does that make us feel? How does it not serve us?; (5) Setbacks and how they help us. Most people give up when they're really close.; (6) How to create a winning team to assist you; (7) The velocity of money application; and (8) all types of leverage to achieve our financial goals. Highly advised reading. NOTE: seems like there are more Kiyosaki negative bashers, to, let me list some hard results. Before these books, I made about 50k per year. Now, I make triple that. These books were part of the reason. I meet a lot of people who talk negatively about RK and who complain about their financial lives. No surprise.
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Summary: Changed how I thought about money and spending
Review: This was a great book for me because I am very good at SAVING money, though not very good at spending it. This book changed how I thought about what it meant to be rich. Some of the richest people I know do not work very hard. There is a reason for this, and the author explains this in a way that will get through any thick skull. I began to read this book less than one month ago, and have already stretched to purchase rental property that will soon be profitable. Though it isn't totally comfortable (or in my "reality" as the author explains), I am convinced it is the best way to achieve financial independence and work now toward working LESS in the future. I thank the book for this confidence. A few notes about Robert's writing: if you are looking for a book that defines a "recipe for success", this is not it. If you're looking for an eloquently written book, this is definitely not it. BUT...this book explains, sometimes philosophically, what it means to have other people's money work for YOU and for YOU to control when and how you pay your taxes. He makes many references to other books in the Rich Dad series (which I have not read), but summarizes those references so you aren't lost as to what he is talking about. He gives many examples from he and his wife's life in where their decisions have taken them. He DOES NOT tell you to go out and buy A, B, or C. Those are for you to determine based on the lessons. This books sticks in my head throughout the day, and in my decisions about spending, investing, saving, and working. I am thirty years old, single, and feel like this book was some of the best money I spent, and even better that I did not wait ten years, or until I was married, or even until tomorrow, to learn these lessons. Highly recommended by this reader!
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Summary: Being A Lifelong Learner
Review: Kiyosaki encourages us to never stop growing as we often do once we finish school and get a job. In the private sector many of us put blinders on to achieve that one narrow goal of working hard to attain that better position with better pay to afford better things. This causes us to become less human and more and more like a rat in the way we think, behave and treat eachother. Part of being a complete human being is to lead a well balanced life that continues to grow everyday by learning new things. In addition to keeping life interesting, this learning will help us to achieve our goals while being in harmony with our environment by giving and taking from it what we need to achieve that goal. Lack of proper knowledge and wisdom leads to fear, insecurity and many times trouble. Kiyosaki encompasses the idea of being a lifelong learner, to obtain information about a particular goal, make a plan, put it into action and then refine that plan from the information obtained thus continuing the cycle. Indeed there are no mistakes in life but only lessons to be learned. He also writes about creating your own reality which enables one to ignore the negative comments from others who through their own fears and insecurities have become rats. The mind needs to be excercised everyday...challenged, to be put in a place that it's not used to being in by thinking "outside the box". Only through this philosophy may we create the ideas necessary to turn our dreams into realities and then dream some more. If you'd much rather be a human than a rat, then you should read this book. Those that wrote negative reviews did not truly understand this book. Although it offers general financial principles, it does not give the reader a specific exterior "get rich" plan. It explains that the individual needs to find from within him/herself an ever-expanding way to see the (financial) world around them which is constantly changing.
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Summary: Is this a book or a biography??????????? cmon robert
Review: I will start off with, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! I heard alot about this gentleman and figured id read one of his books. I first thought, hmm , well maybe it will get more interesting as I read on. Well I read the book cover to cover and it was nothing more than him rambling on about how him and his wife made their millions but nothing about actually HOW TO DO IT! Yeah he had a couple good points (*note..a couple), I'll give him that. He needs to stop talking about himself and his "rich dad" and write about material people can actually use. Sorry Robert.........But ive found Russ Whitney!
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