Robert Kiyosaki,\nthe author of this book, had two fathers, a well-educated father who had a\nPh.D. yet died broke, he called him poor dad, the other one was not that\nwell-educated but was rich, he called him rich dad, one might wonder, how can\nsomeone have two fathers at the same time, that’s a small part of what we’re\ngoing to learn when we proceed in this book, Robert started the dream of being\nrich when he was young, his poor dad always wanted him to study better and have\na safe job at a large company, his other dad, the rich dad, his friend’s\n-Mike’s- father, wanted him to take risks, to learn that not all lessons are\ntaught in school, that some lessons have to be taught by actually passing\nthrough them, these kinds of lessons won’t be acquired by simply going to\nschool and getting good grades, sure it’s important to have a good education\nbut life is not just about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s this old\nstory about a man who owned a donkey, whenever he wanted the donkey to work\nharder, he’d just put a carrot in front of the donkey’s eyes, so the donkey got\nmotivated by the carrot, it kept walking and walking hoping to reach that\ncarrot one day, this was good for the man but not that good for the donkey,\nsee? The carrot here is an illusion, just like money, people keep working and\nworking hoping that someday they would become rich, but money here is an\nillusion, you’ll never reach it if you’re working only to take that carrot,\ninstead, make the money work for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you first\nstart your journey of making money, don’t work to gain money, fear and desire\nalways control how we act, first, our fear of not having enough money makes us\nwork harder each day, then our desire takes control and makes us imagine all\nthe beautiful things money can do, our fear and desire put us in a never-ending\ncycle of wanting more, so we work harder to make more money and as a result, we\nspend more, this what rich dad called the Rat Race, instead, avoid that trap,\navoid the trap of fear and desire because that’s how most people who want to be\nrich fail, you have to make money work for you, when you get a job, don’t just\ngo there to take your paycheck at the end of the month, barely pay your bills\nand then repeat the cycle all over again, or even work harder at another job,\nstill working only for money, that way you’re never going to be rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Confront\nyourself, tell the truth, you don’t have to say it to other people, just say it\nbetween you and yourself, are you just looking for security at a safe job? Are\nyou just working to make more money because you think that this is going to\nmake you rich or that this will satisfy you? If the answer is yes then let me\ntell you that unfortunately that way you’re never going to make it, you’ll die\nbroke, if your answer is no then this is the first step, never let your fear of\nnot having enough money or the desire to make more make you react without\nthinking, that’s a big step on the stairway to failure, sure we all have our\ndesires and our fears, but never make them control you and lead you to act\nirrationally, instead, think well, think and put your mind first before your\nemotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have business\nschools, but they do not teach us how to lead a business or start one, all they\nteach us is how to be bean-counters, how to fire people and give orders, they\nhardly ever teach you how to be a leader, that’s why doctors raise their\nprices, and when they do, people can’t afford it, and as a result, lawyers\nraise their prices, and the cycle keeps moving until everyone has raised their\nprices leading us to a society full of poverty and sickness which will finally\nlead to chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every day when\nyou wake up ask yourself if are you doing all you can, if this is your fullest\npotential, don’t be like normal people who just go day by day thinking about\nmoney and how to work more to get a better raise, don’t go around thinking\n“My boss doesn’t pay me enough, I deserve a raise, I deserve to earn more\nmoney”, when you stop blaming other people for your problems, don’t blame\nyour boss for not giving you a raise, don’t blame the taxes, when you accept\nthat the problem lies within your way of thinking, then and only then, you’ll\nbe able to solve it, that was the first lesson that rich dad has taught Robert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A part of that\nlesson was that the rich dad made them work at a convenience store for free,\nthey kept working, not thinking about money, in their working hours they had a\nfree mind and enough time to get new ideas on how to make money work for them,\nthe convenience store, they saw the store clerk cutting the front page of comic\nbooks in two halves, she kept one half and threw the rest of it away, then a\ndistributor comes at the end of the day to take the top half of the book for\ncredit and give new comics to the store, so they waited for the distributor and\nwhen he arrived, they asked him if they could keep the old comic books and he\nagreed, only if they agree not to sell them, so, they started a business where\nthey allowed kids from different places to read old comic books, 10 cents per\nbook for two hours and then return it after that, so technically they’re not\nselling them, they didn’t even have to work at the garage where they rented the\ncomics, they hired Mike’s sister and payed her just one dollar a week, , they\nmade 9.5 dollars a week, they finally learned how to make money work for them,\nnot the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is only one rule to become truly rich and that is you MUST Learn the difference between liabilities and assets, and buy assets<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n