Title : Guide to Investing
Author: Robert Kiosaki
ISBN: 0446677469
In the year 1974 Robert takes comes out of his marine-cop job in Vietnam and starts learning his investment lessons from his ‘Rich dad’. The book consists of three parts. The first part Robert discusses about four major elements of personal finance. They are ‘Income’, ‘Expenditure’, ‘Assets’ and ‘Liabilities’. He explains how rich people make their ‘Assets’ generate the ‘Income’ and how poor people spend their lifetime by paying up for the liabilities. In the second part Robert explains his ‘Cash-Flow-Quadrants’ in which he classifies people into Employees (E), Small Business Owners (S), Business Owners (B) and Investors (I). He clearly shows how people take the E path and remain poor and how his rich dad took the B path and built wealth. He also talks about personal financial statements, tax and other legal aspects.
In the third and most interesting part Robert talks about ‘Entrepreneurship’. He explains various aspects of building businesses. This section is excellent and inspired me a lot. Finally Robert concludes with stressing the importance of ‘Ultimate Investor’ where an individual builds a business and takes it into public. The first two parts are kind of repetitive and Robert tries to talk the same thing again and again. But I somehow feel in order to understand the ‘Financial-literacy’ this book is a must read mainly because it is simple at the same time makes the reader think a lot.
I dont think I will ever read this book, its not bcoz of your review but bcoz I some how dont feel interested in such topics :).
havent read the complete blog…but the first few lines of it give some good fundas one must know of life rather than experience and realize them during his last few years of life…I will try to get this..
How much does it cost?
The Indian Edition costs close to Rs.600 🙂 I checked out the book at a bookstore yesterday and the contents are quite informative.
I have read his best seller book “Rich dad n poor dad” and I really liked it. This book is a must read for everybody.
Then I picked up his second book “Cashflow Quadrants”. I really got bored after reading few pages. if you leave aside his assets and liablity explanations, I found same sentences and same stuff which I had read in his earlier book. I gave up 🙂
Not sure about his 3rd book. Again my personal opinion 😉
Neel, I would say Robert Kiosaki’s all concepts are covered in ‘Rich dad poor dad (RDPD)’ book itself and remanining books are more of repetitive stuff.In fact in the ‘Guide to Investing’ book I would say 50% of the contents are taken from the RDPD which made me to skip some of the chapters.