Rich Dad Poor Dad

Today I won’t speak personally – but a book full of ideas will speak for me.

I have more than one hundred and fifty employees, but nobody has asked me to disclose my financial knowledge. They ask me for a job and the pay-sheet, never to teach them what I know about how money works. Consequently, most of these people will spend the best years of their lives working for the money, without understanding what they really work for

Stop accusing me, believing that I am the problem. If you think like that, you’ll have to change me. But if you realize that you are the problem, you can change yourself, learn something and become wiser. Many people wish that everyone else changes, except themselves

When it comes to money, many people want to play it safe and keep their backsides warm. Consequently, they aren’t guided by passion, but by fear.

The best part was that our business provided us with money, even when we were physically away. Money worked for us.

The thing that worries me is that I meet thousands of people with one thing in common: they all have incredible potential, talents and personal gifts. Yet there is one thing that limits them: the lack of confidence and hence indecision. It isn’t the lack of technical knowledge that constrains them, but irresolution

The world is full of talented but poor people. Too often they navigate in a sea of financial troubles or earn less than they could not because of what they know, but what they don’t know. They focus on improving in their field, on cooking the best hamburgers, but they forget to learn how to sell and deliver them to the customer. Maybe McDonald's offers mediocre sandwiches, but it sells them in the right manner and in the right contexts.

Robert Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, Rich Dad Poor Dad. What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not, New York, Warner Books, 1997.