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Summary: He Nailed It!
Review: Once again, Robert has nailed it. This author has taken basic common sense information and illustrated it sooo.... effectively with his wordsmithing that all of the lightbulbs in one's mind light up at once. I plan to re-read and absorb everything this author writes.Edvard Redding Richards
author of Fire Your IRA!
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Summary: Kiyosaki strikes again
Review: Once more, the author knows how to skin em'. He spends most of this book repeating the blatantly obvious with cute diagrams, but never quite gives you the hard data. Why not? You need to buy his board game, which he offers at the end of the book.
This is the key. So hand over the dough.
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Summary: Broke the "Paycheck to Paycheck" Cycle
Review: Before reading and more importantly, following the advise in Cash Flow Quadrant, I was like most people in that awful "paycheck to paycheck" cycle, "thank God it's Friday" and oh no, today it's Sunday, back to the old grindstone tomorrow" RUT.I was astonished the other day to talk with someone who I thought was doing pretty well financially. This individual said that if he missed2 paychecks, he would be bankrupt! Then I remembered that was were I was before I read and used the concepts in Cash Flow Quadrant!I would also recommend Who Stole The American Dream, The E-Myth Revisited And Multiple Streams of Income.
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Summary: Even worse than the first one!
Review: Read "Rich Dad's Guide to Investing" and forget about Kiyosaki's other books - the third book in the series captures all the ideas this man has. If you must, browse through the other books in the bookstore - you will realize that the information is repeated, and that you can save a lot of money by not buying his other books.
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Summary: Become Cash Flow Rich - The 4 Quadrants
Review: In this second of the Rich Dad series, Kiyosaki explains the 4 quadrants and while being an E-employee is suicidal. The theme is the same as the first book with Rich Dad Poor Dad comparisons. Then we learn why the rich become rich and why the poor are and stay poor. Kiyosaki also discusses taxes and why the poor are paying so much more in taxes than they need be. RTK uses as an example his poor dad who was highly educated had a high income but was not wealthy because of his Cash Flow patterns. By contrast his Rich Dad had an average education, made less money than his poor father but was wealthier because he learned how to have money work for him instead of working for money as so many do. Cash Flow Quadrant is a excellent book for anyone who wants to break the work for money, live paycheck to paycheck syndrome. Question: What would happen to you if you and your spouse both lost your jobs? If you make money work for you as espoused by RTK in Cash Flow Quadrant you will realize that ir really doesn't matter. But if all you have is a job---oouch!!!
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Summary: Better than the first book
Review: I disagree with the readers who feel that CFQ is inferior or at best, just RDPD in another cover. CFQ goes into more detail the whole Cash Flow concept. Of course, anyone who has actually read the books already knows this which tells me that the bashers at best probably just skimmed the free sample pages here on Amazon and didn't even bother to read CFQ. Good book. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great follow up to "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
Review: This book is a fantastic sequel to "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". While the first Rich Dad book laid a great foundation and provided some high level direction, this book took what I had learned and added to it. There are some repeat "lessons" but they tend to go more in depth and have different examples that help me have a better understanding of the concept. In one of the books RTK uses an example of the financial education that you need to be financially free and compares it to the foundation of a building. These books are helping me lay that strong foundation. As a side note, I listened to the audio CD version of this book and the only things I didn't like were the speakers voice (very robot-sounding) and the fact that every time he mentioned a particular quadrant, he had to say both the letter and name of the quadrant... this got a bit tiresome and a bit Sesame Street sounding (ie "B, Business", "I, Investor").
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Summary: DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR YOUR MONEY!
Review: I have read most of the books in the Rich Dad series. While I see some limited benefit to the perspective with which one might view wealth and entrepreneurship that was provided in the first "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" book, the quality severely deteriorates with each new book. Before buying any of the books I read all the Amazon reviews, postive and negative. I decided to listen to the positve reviews and ignore the negative. That was a mistake. The books contain alot of "fluff". Over simplified information and stories. In one of the Rich Dad books, the author goes on to speak of the different kinds of "leverage" and then alludes to the leverage of popular children's fairy tales. Ludicrous! IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THIS, THEN PLEASE REFER TO THE RECENT SMART MONEY MAGAZINE ARTICLE (I believe it was Jan 2003) THAT PROMINENTLY FEATURES MR. KIYOSAKI. MUCH OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE BOOKS, INCLUDING THAT OF MR. KIYOSAKI'S SUPPOSED BUSINESS SUCCESS IS FICTION!!!!
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Summary: Your financial success or failure begins between your ears!
Review: In considering this book, consider the following points: The condition of your life today is the result of the actions you have taken and words you have spoken in the past... and THESE are the result of the thoughts you have been thinking in your mind. If you want to change your LIFE, change your THOUGHTS. And if your financial life is what you want to change, then this sequel to "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" is a great place to continue your journey to financial success. "Cashflow Quadrant" is even better than Robert Kiyosakis original book! However, you need to master the first (reading it several times if necessary) if you are to have any hope of grasping the second. The lessons and principles taught by the author in this second book of the "Rich Dad" series will transform how you view the four elements of the Cashflow Quadrant: Employment, Self-Employment, Investing and Business(which he differentiates from Self-Employment nicely). You NEED to understand the differences between these four sources of cahsflow if you expect to increase your wealth. I have not only personally applied what I learned from Cashflow Quadrant, but I have also shared these principles with other individuals and watched the "light go on" in their head--the first step to becoming financially FREE. Learn to THINK free, and you will BE FREE. Learn to think like the RICH, and you must eventually BECOME RICH as you will have the same thought processes that they had to become what they are. As the Scripture says "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he", you must be delivered BETWEEN YOUR EARS if you want the evidence of that deliverence to result in your LIFE! Buy & read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" to gain the basic understanding necessary for this second edition to have its full impact on your thinking, then dive into Cashflow Quadrant and become wealthy as a result of your new wealthy thinking! Other books, of course, will need to be read as you continue your financial education, but the "Rich Dad series" and its "Rich Dad Advisor Series" are the best place to start!
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Summary: Good, BUT....
Review: "Cash Flow Quadrant" has a good message, but not unique enough to warrant purchasing in ADDITION to "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", unless you are a fan of Kiyosaki and his stream of consciousness writing style. As other reviewers have stated, it is short on practical specifics, long on generalities and is somewhat repetitive. Very well suited for an audio book listened to over multiple sittings -- since it is motivational and repetitive, one easily pick up anywhere in the tape and get the message.
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