The Rich Dad Poor Dad book by Robert T. Kiyosaki is an
enlightening write-up, as well as insightful. It provided information on how one can start establishing his or her career on their own before leaving the comfort of their home. The book started on how the author was raised by his two (2) fathers – one (1) his biological father and the other was the father of his childhood friend. His father was an academician and has been working for long as a civic employee but never get to rise up his average economic status – average earning family. While the figure father started as a businessman, investing on retailing businesses or small businesses, which in turn turned into a large profit earning business as time passes by. Kiyosaki provided insights that security of tenure in work does not results to wealth as perceived by most Asian cultures. Academic education can indeed provide skills to earn a living but it is still in the determination of a person that one becomes successful. In this book, he emphasized the significance of
learning how to manage ones account, expenses, income and/or expenditures. Being thrifty is always a start to becoming rich. Because learning how to manage his expenses and being frugal helps in earning every cent that comprises a million. The author put emphasis also on learning the significance of understanding what proper accounting means. Learning the cash flow is not commonly included on school curriculums and in our schools. There are much emphasis on arts, music, and literature, sciences and other mathematical operations. But in this book, the author mentioned that the best thing a kid could start learning is how to compute income and expenditures. Learning how to work not for money but work for values. When one exceeded the human nature of greed, he begins to learn how to look at opportunities that are around him. It is easy to see opportunities when you are not blinded by greed of money. Money is only a tool in getting what you really need. You can make it work for you and not you working for it. Thus, reading this book would teach its readers the real values and principles by those well earned wealth. Also, the book shows its readers the different types of persons one can become. An example is those who complaints because they feel that they are mistreated or taken advantaged of by the situation or the rich people. By reading this book, we will realize that it is within our hands that we can make things happen for us. We just need where to look, how to do it and be accountable for where we are. There are examples of where to start investing like putting your money on trust funds or by joining a MLM or Multi Level
Marketing. This book will show how significant is for one to learn marketing skills or selling skills. So if a reader has no interest to get into marketing or selling, he or she may not see this book useful, or the other way around. This can help them get motivated and get interested with marketing. The book is interesting enough to read. Readers can easily reflect at the way they manage their expenses and relate with the examples cited in the book. But to really appreciate the book, one sitting would not be enough to fully equip him on how to get rich. He needs to read it several times to understand fully the steps and formula on becoming wealthy. This book is really appealing to readers because many had wanted to get rich fast. But as a wa