Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad¬—the #1 personal finance book of all time—Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. He is an entrepreneur, educator, and investor who believes the world needs more entrepreneurs who will create jobs.
With perspectives on money and investing that often contradict conventional wisdom, Robert has earned an international reputation for straight talk, irreverence, and courage and has become a passionate and outspoken advocate for financial education.
Robert and Kim Kiyosaki are founders of The Rich Dad Company, a financial education company, and creators of the CASHFLOW games. In 2014, the company leveraged the global success of the Rich Dad games with the launch of new and breakthrough offerings in mobile and online gaming as well as Rich Dad’s CLUTCH, a digital learning platform.
Robert has been heralded as a visionary who has a gift for simplifying complex concepts—ideas related to money, investing, finance, and economics—and has shared his personal journey to financial freedom in ways that resonate with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. His core principles and messages—like “Your house is not an asset“ and “Invest for cash flow” and “savers are losers”—have ignited a firestorm of criticism and ridicule… only to have played out on the world economic stage over the past decade in ways that were both unsettling and prophetic.
In Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 Personal Finance book of all time, Robert Kiyosaki shares the story of his two dad: his real father, whom he calls his ?poor dad, ' and the father of his best friend, the man who became his mentor and his ?rich dad.' One man was well educated and an employee all his life, the other's education was ?street smarts" over traditional classroom education and he took the path of entrepreneurship?a road that led him to become one of the wealthiest men in Hawaii.
Robert's poor dad struggled financially all his life, and these two dads?these very different points of view of money, investing, and employment?shaped Robert's thinking about money. Robert has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people, around the world, think about money and investing and he has become a global advocate for financial education and the path to financial freedom.
Rich Dad Poor Dad (and the Rich Dad series it spawned) has sold over 36 million copies in English and translated editions around the world. Rich Dad Poor Dad will? ? explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich ? challenge the belief that your house is an asset ?
show parents why they can't rely on the school system to teach their kids about money ? define, once and for all, an asset and a liability ? explain the difference between good debt and bad debt ? teach you to see the world of money from different perspectives ? discuss the shift in mindset that can put you on the road to financial freedom