Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert T. Kiyosaki

November 1, 2015 · 2:13 pm

Increase your assets, not your liabilities.

House is a liability.

Work on yur financial intelligence.

These are just three of the many points repeated in this book (although you won't find any true practical point). Kiyosaki suggests us to make your money work for you, not the contrary, and this is theoretically true, but the few examples he makes do not go deep in the matter. True is that, if you want to make money without dying for too much work, you have to study hard the following 4 subjects:

This is not for me. Yes, I have taken the highest mark at the accountancy secondary school, but I hate that subject! Moreover, I would not be able to stand for the high financial pressure, the need to check markets and shares; I fear loosing money and, last but not least, I have zero intuition for real estates up and downs.

In one word: no. This is not my way to become rich.

But I agree with some Kiyosaki's assumpions. First of all: employee working won't make you rich. Well, Kiyosaki says that hard working is old fashioned (and said by a person who retired at 47 and lives without working, it sounds interesting). Exactly the opposite stated by Henry Ford in his "My Life and my work", where work is considered as natural as human being exhistence. Two completely different points of views, in two different historical times, but with a point in common: they are stated by rich people. Another proof that paper lets her be written and that you have to find your own way to live.

Kiyosaki criticises employees attitude: their acceptance of things as they are, the gift of own energy and time to someone who will become rich. He says: do not work in a company, but create a company.

The mouse race is the one of the middle classe person. You work harder because you want to get more money, but the more you work, the more you have to pay for taxes. And then, the more you grew rich, the more you buy, without asking yourself if a Porsche or a bigger house are liabilities or if they create cashflows...

Kiyosaki is a great fan of elusion's techniques. And it is also true that schools do not teach you how to become rich. They (should) teach you how become an employee. Your true richness is your mind, but you must study all your life long, and you must work also on your communications skills: learning how to sell is often more important than what you sell.

I was particularly impresed by one of his statements: he claimed to be a best seller author, not a great writer.

Last comment: Kiyosaki and other people like him become richer and richer without producing anything material. We come back to my old assumption that the future is made by services to people, not things production. But what strikes me is that such people are rich despite the so called worl crisis. I mean: the money in circulation on the earth is not less than the period when the crisis was far away. Therefore... if the total volume of money is stil the same, and it is just distributed in a different way, the crisis is subjective. Maybe this is an old truth for you. For me it is a total enlightenment.

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