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Summary: Not very useful...
Review: This book is filled with cliches, platitutes and vague concepts, but very little specific useful information. Actually, the best thing that I inferred from the book is the best way to retire young and rich is to write a mediocre book about planning for retirement.I don't intend to be overly mean, but the book has the tone of a late night television huckster peddling real estate investment scams.
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Summary: Huh?
Review: something about the author complaining about being broke and worring about the next year while he was on a ski trip just doesn't sound right. The long and the short of this book is own a bunch of assets, go into debt to get them if you have too, then write a series of books. Some good information about changing your mindset, but I had already done that is why I bought the book.
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Summary: Good book, not great, but worth a read.
Review: I thought this was a pretty good book. Not much on How-to, more of a Why-to. The author spends most of the book recollecting how he became wealthy, and gives some good advice on why you should press on when things look bleak. I liked it, and I came away with an understanding that in order to be where you want to go, you have to focus on your business and goals with a singlemindedness that most people aren't willing to reach. Anybody can do it. I haven't yet, but I will. It's worth reading if you apply what you learn.
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Summary: Not very helpful
Review: This book repeats itself so many times it becomes an annoyance. The book could have been written in about 50 pages. Really the mantra is: Own a business or real estate or stocks. Being employed is bad. Yep, got all that. It does manage to make you think about how truly aweful it is to be an employed toady, but like most books of this ilk there is very little there to help you get started. It read like a multi-level marketing meeting.
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Summary: The best... And the worst
Review: I've read almost all of the Rich Dad series, and I continue to give each one of them mixed reviews.
On the one hand, these books stress that people are NOT going to become 'rich' by saving and investing for retirement. The truly rich DO think different and have different options, primarily because they own their own business.
The information provided is, on the one hand, so obvious you wonder "why bother". Then, you realize that Mr. Kiyosaki is the only person out there putting together books like this, and then you have to wonder "why isn't anyone else saying this!?!" The RD,PD books form a cornerstone of my personal finance library, NOT because of the depth of information provided (as one other reviewer mentioned, specifics are THIN), but because these books are designed to make you THINK, to make you expand your potential, and to find out the rich person in you. That sounds esoteric, but the reason each book repeats earlier books is because the messages need to be repeated, repeated, repeated until you finally _realize_ what he's trying to say! Yes, this book is a rehash of the previous books. Yes, it does provide a few new insites that make it worthwile. BUT, the fact that Mr. Kiyosaki finally goes into a little bit of detail of HOW he raised himself up, how he APPLIED the lessons he's been teaching, and a bit about some deals he worked. The series isn't about specifics; remember that. It's about changing your CONTEXT. Read the book and you'll understand.
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Summary: A Book of Words...Just WORDS!
Review: If "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is a brilliant success, this one is a brilliant FAILURE. The theme is very loose, and it seems the author has nothing to say anymore, especially after all these rich dad, poor dad series. I cannot find the theme coherence of the whole book, and the author is just selling / marketing (again) all his previous titles. You can get any more practical financial advices from other Do-it-yourself personal finance book. I just want to say: if you want to be the rich dad, don't buy the book and save the money in money market fund, at least you earn a penny a month.
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Summary: Same as the other books.
Review: Robert Kiyosaki, Talks about the different quadrant's. There is the self employed, the employee, the investor, and the business owner. I have read his books in the past getting to the investment and business owner Quadrant is next to impossible. I have read several books on real estate and theory is not always practical. Looking for distressed properties is just a feeding frenzy. There is so much competition For distressed properties the only way you can get them is to pay cash. I have been to the foreclosure auctions in Houston Texas and it is required that you bring at least (amount) in cash just to pickup 2 properties! Once you make it to the investment and business owner quadrant you Are set for life. The hard part is getting there. I have tried for the last six months, moved from a 3,000 square foot house to a small condo to have more money available to me for investments. Even working for investors and finding them houses hasn't worked out either. Unless you are looking for a long term investment and pay full retail for the house's I can't seem to get it to work. The theory behind it is great. Getting the theory to work is a whole different story. I have also noticed that when you tell people you are a Real-Estate investor they demand to know your secrets (they don't ask) you would not believe how many people in Church have approached me wanting to know my secrets. The people that are in Real-Estate will do everything they can to sabotage your success, even people in my Church this seems to be true. If you are successful keep it a secret!
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Summary: Don't buy this book.
Review: This book should be free since it offers little more than Robert Kiyosaki selling his other books and games. If you want to retire young and retire rich, own a little real estate and write a lot of lousy books. That is the message I received.
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Summary: Where is the beef?
Review: Although this book covered some very interesting and some what complicated concepts (such as Context vs. Content; different types of leverage), I find this book contains way too many fillers and self promotions. Not only did the fillers wasted a lot of the readers' time, it also hurt Mr. Kiyosaki credibility as an financial educator. We all know that Mr. Kiyosaki is getting rich by selling books like this one. I feel he is milking his ideas too much. I know one thing, he just lost me as a returning customer.
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Summary: People should work harder
Review: I haven't yet read the other books in the "series"; but I can say that reading anything for the supposition that it may someday have relevance is not a bad thing. For all those crying poor-mouth about not finding work, get over yourselves and work at all the malls or fast-food joints that I see signs on. Better yet, work 2 jobs like I do and keep in mind that it's not forever. It's possible to retire young, you just have to WORK first.
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