This is a GREAT book! I can definitely say it changed my life and they way I look at money and finances. For example, my husband and I bought investment properties after I had him read it as well. It is very easy and interesting to read. READ IT! READ IT! READ IT!

Here is one of my favorite lines from it, approximately quoted: "I have never met a rich man who hasn't lost a lot of money, but I have met a lot of poor men who have never lost a dime." True! SO TRUE. Everytime I lose money in an investment, I remember how much better I am for investing and making my money work for me than just hiding it and hoping nothing bad happens to it.

Also, I loved the story of the young talented writer who came to Robert Kiyosaki and lamented not being able to get published. He told her she was very talented, and that she should take a sales class. She was mortified. SALES? She was a gifted writer, not a lowly salesperson. (I excelled at sales, so I personally already was thinking she was kind of dumb.) Robert Kiyosaki pointed out that the cover if his book said "Best SELLING author", not "Best WRITING author". She was miffed. He was right.

I saw some other reviews saying they disliked the way he talks about people with tons of education always being poor, as if he is above them and so much smarter. Honestly, there is nothing wrong with having lots of education and still being poor, if that's all you want. This book is about how to be smart financially, though. Feel free to be poor. I want to be a millionaire soon. So I learn about money. And I love and learn from Robert Kiyosaki, who is great at that.

Lots of people look at him and get annoyed that he is so rich and successful, and don't like him. I instead look at how he is rich and successful, and try to figure out how he did it. Amen.

A book that teaches you how to manage your money and achieve financial freedom.

میشه گفت رابرت کیوکاسی تمام سعی خودش رو کرده تا مفاهیم اقتصادی/مدیریتی رو در قالب داستان به مردم عادی آموزش بده به همین دلیل کتاب نسبت به حجمش مطالب خیلی کمی رو ارائه داده به طوری که 100صفحه اول کتاب رو میشه تو نیم صفحه خلاصه کرد،ولی با جلو رفتن کتاب اطلاعات بیشتری در اختیار خواننده قرار میگیره ،البته نه اونقدر زیاد ،به راحتی میشه کل مطالب کتاب رو تو 30 صفحه خلاصه کرد
اصلا منظورم این نیست که کتاب خوبی نیست،حتی پیشنهاد می کنم این کتاب رو مطالعه کنید، فقط میگم می تونست خلاصه تر نوشته بشه

قسمت هایی از کتاب:


وقتی بچه بودم پدرم همیشه به ما میگفت:ژاپنی ها به قدرت سه عامل معتقد هستند:قدرت شمشیر،جواهر و آیینه
شمشیر،نشانه قدرت اسلحه است.(آمریکا تریلیون ها دلار برای اسلحه خرج کرده و به همین خاطر حضور کلی در سراسر جهان دارد)
جواهر، نشانه قدرت پول است و ضرب المثلی هست که میگوید:این قانون طلایی را به خاطر بسپار،کسی که صاحب طلاست قانون ها را وضع می کند
آیینه،نشانه ی قدرت خودشناسی می باشد.این خودشناسی بر طبق افسانه ی ژاپنی،با ارزش ترین این سه قدرت است



در سال 1974 از ری کرک ،موسس مک دونالد،درخواست شد تا در دانشگاه تگزاس در آستین ،در کلاس دانشجویان دوره فوق لیسانس بازرگانی صحبت کند. بعد از پایان صحبت های تحریک کننده و تاثیرگذار،کلاس خاتمه پیدا کرد و دانشجویان از ری درخواست کردند که اگر می خواهد به آن ها برای صرف نوشیدنی ملحق شود ری بزگوارانه دعوت آن ها را پذیرفت
زمانی که گروه دانشجویان داشتند نوشیدنی خودشان را می نوشیدند ری پرسید : فکر می کنید من تو چه کاری هستم ؟ همه خندیدند و بیشتر دانشجویان فکر کردند ری می خواهد سر به سر آنها بگذارد کسی جواب نداد و او دوبار پرسید: فکر می کنید من تو چه کاری هستم؟
دانشجویان دوباره خندیدند و یکی از آن ها با صدای بلند گفت: ری همه در دنیا می دانند که شما توی کار همبرگر هستید
ری پیش خود خنده ای کرد و گفت : فکر می کردم همین را بگویید و پس از لحظه ای مکث ادامه داد خانم ها و آقایان من توی کار همرگر نیستم کار من املاک و مستغلات است
ری شروع کرد در مورد این موضوع توضیح دادن.او می دانست که کار اولیه آن ها متمرکز بر روی فروختن همبرگر به شعبه های مک دونالد است ولی هیچ وقت اهمیت موقعیت مکانی هر شعبه را نادیده نمی گرفت.او می دانست ملک و موقعیت آن،مهمترین عامل در موفقیت هر شعبه می باشد.در حقیقت کسی که حق نمایندگی و شعبه مک دونالد را می گیرد ،مکان شعبه را نیز می خرد.ملکی که تحت نمایندگی سازمان ری کرک میرود
امروزه مک دونالد بزرگترین صاحب املاک در جهان با یک نفر مالک می باشد ،با تعدد شعباتی حتی بیشتر از کلیسای کاتولیک.درضمن مک دونالد صاحب پر ارزش ترین تقاطع ها و گوشه های خیابان های آمریکا و تمام جهان می باشد

اصلن نمیدونم چرا فروشنده بهم پیشنهاد کرد اینو
و اصلن نمیدونم چرا اون موقع خوندمش :|

Read this one in 2004, but maybe I read an earlier edition...

I think I rated this one 5stars. I have to review my journals, it's been too long, I can't remember what I've written.

I'll be back with this one...

This book has a picture of the author on the cover. I should’ve considered myself warned. But here’s the thing - I’m 28 years old, married with no kids, spent the better part of the last 10 years at uni and I work full time. I have spent my entire life studiously avoiding economics, finance, accounting and all associated disciplines, instead always choosing the history/politics/social sciences path, and then studying law. As a result, I have a big gaping hole in my knowledge, and no idea about what to do with the money that I’m currently saving. Also, I have this thing where I through phases of obsessively reading and learning about new things. A few months ago, it was fish and aquariums (I’m not kidding). Now, it’s learning about.. finance. I actually can’t believe I’m writing this, but .. I am.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a book that both taught me some things, and made my blood boil. It borders on negligent in many areas, and is downright offensive in the guise of being ‘helpful’. I absolutely agree with one of the premises, that many people are financially illiterate. I also agree that many people aren’t able to teach their kids money stuff, because they don’t know that much themselves. This book made me think about what I’m doing with my money and gave me some insight into the kind of things I am now going to look into and research. But it also scared me. This book is a libertarian’s wet dream that was written to be a bestseller. He won, I guess.

It’s terribly written – it really is abysmal. This book bats you over the head with a few ideas (one of which is that The Poor should just stop being so poor!) through numerous “conversations” with his Rich Dad (who is supposedly the father of his friend). It’s horrendous dialogue; it actually.. I just can’t. It’s horrible. It talks about his father (the Poor Dad) who is university educated and hard working, but supposedly foolishly believes that getting an education and then a secure job is a waste of time. Education – what a joke, right? What a waste of time and money, that could otherwise be spent on high risk ventures that will always make you millions. That can be further invested to make billions.
Rich Dad, however, never finished high school, and owns numerous companies that employ The Poor (read: stupid idiots) who work for him, because they’re The Poor. Rich Dad teaches us how The Rich do things, and why that’s all we need to do to join their ranks.

The thing is, not everybody is afforded the same opportunities, and the point about high risk, is that risks are high. Sometimes it all comes crashing down.
The world is not comprised of “the rich”, “the middle class” and “the poor” and even if you look at it that way, it is a dangerous (and derogatory) to consider that people are poor because they don’t make their money work for them. Because they’re “losers” (I shit you not) who are too scared to take a risk.

It is fervently anti-intellectual. It totally disregards that not everybody has the capacity or opportunity to “pay themselves first” before paying bills, or quit their job to make money work for them. Money doesn’t just come to you if you try hard enough. Sometimes you need to actually pay your bills because there are real life consequences to failing to do so. Like, your utilities being disconnected. Your credit rating being destroyed.

In my view, and in reality, not everybody can be an employer. Employers need employees.
There is actual intrinsic value to things other than being an employer, running a company, and making money. Things like, helping people, making things, research, writing, hell – even working. I find it scary, that people would pick this book up, be motivated by it (because if nothing else, it’s motivating. Because everyone can be The Rich!) and be lulled into a false sense of entitlement, purpose and safety by its messages. I imagine that in person, Kiyosaki is a cult leader type person.

As I mentioned, I’m not well versed in financial or economic things – but I can smell bullshit and see when inconvenient facts or complications are glossed over. This one is getting filed in the bin, and I’m going to continue my learning elsewhere!

My father handed me this book two nights ago, and said something to the effect of "interesting read--not very informative, but not bad".

After reading 36 out of 195 pages, I've already gotten a grasp of the overall message (make your money work for you). I've also become bored with it. As a future purveyor of doctorate-level counseling/psychological services (fingers crossed, here), reading the dribble that pop-psychologists, self-made millionaires, and the like are allowed to put into print nauseates me. I will admit freely that self-help books can be and are a legitimate help to many people. But the fact that Kiyosaki continues to make so much money off of a book full of relatively obvious "revelations" is off-putting to say the least.

This book will sit on my bedside table a few more days for the sake of my father's dignity. But I'll be damned if I spend another spare moment reading it.

This euphoric get-rich-quick book, which hinges on swindling people on the real estate market and other schemes, was very disappointing.

The basis is the author's comparison of his father and a rich man who initiatied him, in his young age, into the secret world of the rich. Throughout the text, the author berates his father, a dedicated teacher, while singing the praises of his friend's dad, an uneducated and union-crushing business leader who has an important redeeming quality: his uncanny ability to make money by any (barely legal) means possible.

The author proceeds to portray anyone with a job - and especially teachers, the most gullible of all - as fools who should drop everything and go into the real estate market and trendy stocks, where the real money is. If we are to believe him, work is for idiots and capitalism is all about beating the system to make a quick buck, tax-free thanks to exemptions and loopholes.

In other words: the system is designed so that the rich and crafty pay low taxes and the poor pay high taxes. Anything remotely resembling social equity is immediately labeled as "socialist" (read: communist) by the author. The solution is simple! Get rich yourself, using whatever scheme is at hand, and then laugh at all the people who actually work for a living.

Just one problem: what kind of society would we live in if everyone stopped providing vital, meaningful functions in society and instead lived in a dream world of speculation and scheming against their neighbour?

And is life no more than a game of savage capitalism where the winner is, predictably enough, the most ruthless and cunning savage?

The book is not entirely without merit. Some tips are timeless enough to hold true, for example paying yourself first, buying up assets rather than liabilities, etc. However, this information isn't exactly earth shattering. A much better book would be The Richest Man in Babylon, which presents a more reasonable, balanced, and human approach to managing personal finances.

رابرت کیوساکی یک نویسنده ی موفق نیست فقط یک فروشنده ی موفق هست که توانسته کتابش را هم خوب بفروشد و خودش هم این را میگوید , در کنار این هنر خوب فروختن کتابش هم مفاهیم اولیه ای از تفکر یک فرد ثروتمند برای ما به نمایش میگذارد , کل حرف هایش که در این همه صفحات نوشته شده برای من خلاصه میشود در این حرف که مغزت را به کار بینداز و مثل بقیه آدم های اطرافت زندگی را پیش نگیر که سرنوشتی جز آنها در این صورت نخواهی داشت , خود رابرت در انتهای کتاب میگوید که از کودکی تا بزرگسالی در حال آموزش در رابطه با سرمایه گذاری و تفکرش در مورد پول و راه اندازی یک کار و بار بوده و بعد در طول شش سال تمام این اموخته ها را در راه اندازی کار و ثروتمند شدنش به کار گرفته , جالب هست , این نشان میدهد یک شبه پولدار شدن اینگونه رویایی ای در کار نیست و خب همین باعث میشد که من کتاب را با دقت بخوانم چون همیشه عقیده ام این بوده که باد آورده را خود باد هم میبرد اما عقاید رابرت و اعمالش در مورد پول ریشه های محکمش را از کودکی در ذهن او دوانده بوده و بالاخره یک روزی هم به بار نشسته , حال این مسئله هست که امثال ما آدم های عادی چقدر باید روی ذهن و تفکرات دِگَم به قول رابرت کار کنیم تا به جایی برسیم که اقتصادی فکر کنیم و از پول کار بکشیم نه اینکه برای پول کار کنیم , این حرف ها فقط با عمل به جایی میرسند نه با شعار و خواندن کتاب و ریویو نوشتن در موردش , فقط تفکر و عمل و عمل و عمل و ... این را هم بگویم من از این کتاب چیزهای خوبی یاد گرفتم و این را فهمیدم که باید علمم در رابطه با پول و سرمایه گذاری و امثالش را بیشتر کنم و از مسیر تکراری زندگی همگان بیرون بیایم و مسیر جدیدم را بسازم ...

Rich Dad , Poor Dad (Rich Dad #1), Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 book written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter.

It advocates the importance of financial literacy (financial education), financial independence and building wealth through investing in assets, real estate investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one's financial intelligence (financial IQ) to improve one's business and financial aptitude.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is written in the style of a set of parables, ostensibly based on Kiyosaki's life.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز شانزدهم سپتامبر سال2011میلادی

عنوان: بابای پولدار بابای بی پول؛ نویسنده: رابرت تی کیوساکی؛ شارون ال لچر؛ مترجم: پروین قائمی؛ تهران، معیار اندیشه، سال1385؛ در270ص؛ شابک9646617751؛ چاپ دوم و سوم سال1386؛ چاپ چهارم سال1387؛ چاپهای پنجم و ششم سال1388؛ شابک9789646617759؛ چاپ هفتم سال1389؛ چاپ دوازدهم سال1392؛ چاپ سیزدهم سال1393؛ موضوع سرمایه گذاری امور مالی از نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 21م

افراد، با آگاهی از گردش مالی، قادرند، خوشبخت و مرفه باشند؛ شم مالی، نوعی جریان فکری است، که از راه آن می­توان مشکلات مالی خود را حل کرد؛ جهان امروز، جهان پیچیده، متغیر، و بسیار بزرگتر از دنیای بگذشته است، در این دنیا، کسی جام جهان­نما ندارد؛ ولی در این نکته نیزکوچکترین تردیدی وجود ندارد، و آنهم اینکه، تغییرات آینده است، که در چهارچوب ذهن ما، نمی­گنجد، و هیچکدام از افراد پایین جامعه، از آن خبر ندارند؛ یکی از دلایل پولدار شدن پولدارها، و بی­ پول شدن بی ­پولها، و دست و پا زدن طبقه ی متوسط، در قرض و بدهی، این است که موضوع پول، صرفا در خانه مطرح می­شود، و در نظام آموزشی هیچ جایگاهی ندارد؛ برای پولدار شدن، لازم است، نخست یاد بگیریم؛ که با مغز خود پول دربیاوریم؛ آدم­ها آنگاه واقعا فقیر می­شوند، که از تلاش کردن، ناامید شوند، مهم­ترین مسئاله وارد شدن در میدان، شروع کردن به کار است؛ بیشتر آدمها یک عمر، درباره ی پولدار شدن، حرف می­زنند و گاه تنها خواب آن را می­بینند، ولی هیچکاری نمی­کنند؛ داشتن ماشین و خانه­ ی حسابی، لزوما به معنای پولدار شدن نیست؛ آدم­های پولدار، پیش از پولدار شدن، نخست پایه ­های یک «امپراتوری مالی» را پی می­ریزند

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 19/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 09/08/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

"And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.'"
But God said to him, "You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?"

That parable popped into my mind when I read this book. This book is about "what the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not." It's not so much a manual on how to get rich, but more of a book on the underlying worldview of the wealthy. In it Mr. Kiyosaki contrasts his own father--Poor Dad--who got a good education, worked hard, but never quite made it big, with the father of one of his friends, who was quite successful and took Mr. Kiyosaki under his wing. I was moved to read this book because, as I've been looking over my finances, I wonder if I might not have been doing things wrong. It turns out that I'm not totally off Mr. Kiyosaki's track. By the grace of God I've been able to avoid major debt and I tend to avoid transient luxuries such as fancy cars and the latest electronic gadgets. (Of course, my two year "vacation" overseas was hardly a wealth building choice.) On the other hand, I'm too lazy to work hard and invest my finances responsibly. I'm content to stick my excess cash in the bank and forget about it. So has the book changed me? I don't know. I don't need to be rich, but I sure do covet the financial independence that wealth can buy. Even while I recognize the wisdom that Mr. Kiyosaki offers, I couldn't really buy into his world view. I'm going to have to think about this some more before I make any lifestyle changes. Could I recommend this book? Well, it was an enjoyable read despite the fact that I find finances boring. But I have two big reservations about it. The first that it was written about ten years ago, in a different financial climate. The second is that Mr. Kiyosaki has other books and materials for sale. I sometimes wonder if maybe the unspoken secret to financial success is to get a lot of people to buy your books and attend your seminars. Caveat emptor!

If you search for the best non-fiction (business) books list, the one that is popular even today is “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and after reading it, I understand why. It’s one of the best books on finance and it changed my perspective of looking at money.

Told in an interesting and engaging manner, Robert Kiyosaki advocates the importance of financial literacy. By using anecdotes from his life and the lessons he learned from his two father figures, the author explains the difference between the mindset of rich and poor regarding money.

In this book, the author points out the traditional mistakes people make while handling their finances and how the educational system does not focus on financial literacy. Therefore, he encourages people to learn about accounting, financial market, taxes and investing.

One of the fascinating things that stands out in this book is the stark difference between the point of view of the rich and poor person of looking at money. The rich dad sees money in a positive light which is at odds with the popular opinion about money.

Overall, this is an informative book. It made me interested in learning about finance and managing money in a better way. If you want to learn about finance, I highly recommend this book.