This book by Robert Kiyosaki is a great book for both business men and those who aspire to be businessmen someday. It teaches you that financial literacy will give you the freedom everyone dreams of. The author believes not in traditional path to success which is "go to school, get high grades, get a diploma and get a safe secure job." In his case Robert had two dads (rich dad and poor dad). Rich dad is not actually his father but rather, it was his friends father and poor dad was his real father. Now the difference between the two fathers was that one was a school dropout and the other was a highly educated professor. What is ironic is that the one who did not finish school became "rich dad" and the highly accomplished teacher is "poor dad". In this he shows people that getting rich didn't have anything to do with your academic accomplishments because if it did poor dad would have been rich dad and vice versa. Of course traditional education gave you technical know how but it doesn't equip you with the essentials of getting rich which are namely guts, financial know how, imagination, spotting opportunities and solving problems. Another thing is that traditional education creates this idea of graduating and getting a safe secure job which Robert believe is equal to slavery to money. Why? It is because you become attached to your job. It becomes your life support system and a person in a "safe secure job" stagnates and doesn't use his IMAGINATION anymore on how to make money work for him because he is busy working for money. He says that a job is just a short term solution to a long term problem.
If you haven't noticed most of the successful people we have scientists, inventors and tycoons are mostly school dropouts. This further reinforces the fact that we ...