Rich Dad, Poor Dad is Robert Kiyosaki's first best-selling book. It advocates financial independence through investing, real estate, owning businesses, and the use of finance protection tactics.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is written in an entertaining anecdotal manner to make finances interesting. [citation needed] The most central element stressed by Kiyosaki is the advocacy of owning the system or means of production, rather than being an employee of someone else.
Summary
The book takes the form of a story. It is largely based on Kiyosaki's own upbringing and education in Hawaii, although the degree of fictionalization is disputed. Because of the heavy use of allegory, some readers believe that Kiyosaki created Rich Dad as an author surrogate (a literary device), discussed further in the criticism section below. Many readers believe that the "Rich Dad" in the book, is actually the founder of the "ABC convenient stores" which are found in the most populated areas of a number of the islands of Hawaii.
The Poor Dad in the story is based on Kiyosaki's real father, a PhD holder and graduate of Stanford, Chicago, and Northwestern University, all on full scholarship, who was the head of the Education department of the state of Hawaii. In the book, he is greatly respected until he decides, late in his career, to take a stand on principle against the governor of Hawaii. This leads directly to Poor Dad losing his job, and his inability to find comparable work ever again. Because he has never learned to handle money, instead depending on the government (his employer) for support, he dies in severe debt.
In contrast to this character is Rich Dad, his best friend Michael's father. Rich Dad dropped out in 8th grade, but became a self-made multi-millionaire regardless. He teaches Kiyosaki and Michael a variety of financial lessons, and insists that the boys learn to make money work for them to avoid spending their whole lives working for money, like Rich Dad's employees, as well as Poor Dad, and indeed most of the people in the world.
Anthony Robbins holds a seminar called 'Wealth Mastery' and one of the keynote speakers is a gentleman called Keith Cunningham. During the seminar Cunningham claimed to be Kiyosaki's Rich Dad. This is highly unlikely not only because of the similarity in age between Cunningham and Kiyosaki, and Kiyosaki had stated in his books that Rich Dad had died in 1994. Some have claimed that Rich Dad was a person named Richard Kimi, the deceased founder of Sand and Seaside Hawaiian Hotels.
The book highlights the different attitudes to money, work and life of these two men, and how they in turn influenced key decisions in Kiyosaki's life.
The audiobook
http://rapidshare.com/files/67428432/RichDad1.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/67433291/RichDad2.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/67440174/RichDad3.mp3
The book
http://rapidshare.com/files/6394601...obert_T_1_._Kiyosaki_-_Rich_Dad__Poor_Dad.pdf
Here are some pdf's you might want to check out!!!!
Robert_Kiyosaki_-_Own_Your_Own_Corporation
http://rapidshare.com/files/67302730/Robert_Kiyosaki_-_Own_Your_Own_Corporation.pdf
Robert_Kiyosaki_-_Rich_Dad_Secrets
http://rapidshare.com/files/67302629/Robert_Kiyosaki_-_Rich_Dad_Secrets.pdf
Robert_Kiyosaki_-_You_Can_Choose_To_Be_Rich_Workbook
http://rapidshare.com/files/67301567/Robert_Kiyosaki_-_You_Can_Choose_To_Be_Rich_Workbook.pdf
Robert_Kiyosaki_-_Rich_Dad_s_Guide_To_Financial_Freedom_-_Cashflow_Quadrant
http://rapidshare.com/files/6730002..._To_Financial_Freedom_-_Cashflow_Quadrant.pdf
Robert_Kiyosaki_-_What_The_Rich_Invest_In
http://rapidshare.com/files/63969202/Robert_Kiyosaki_-_What_The_Rich_Invest_In.pdf
