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Rich Dad, Poor Dad is written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. It advocates financial independence through investing, real estate, owning businesses, and the use of finance protection tactics. According to Kiyosaki and Lechter, wealth is measured as the number of days the income from your assets will sustain you. Financial independence is achieved when your monthly income from assets exceeds your monthly expenses.

The book is the story of a person who has two fathers: the first was his biological father (the poor dad) and the other was the father of his childhood best friend, Mike (the rich dad). Both fathers taught the author how to achieve success but with very different approaches.

The educated poor dad but lacks financial literacy, because he does not acquire any valuable lessons about money, simply because it is never taught in school. Poor dad encourage their sons to do well in school so they could get a good job with a good company. Poor dad believed in working hard, and saving money. His poor dad worked hard but somehow never made it ahead financially.

While his little educated rich dad, deliberately takes advantage of the power of corporations and their personal knowledge of tax and accounting. Rich dad give him great lesson by paying him very low wages deliberately so that would stir anger and a sense of injustice and eventually for him to realize that in order to get ahead, one must work for himself and not for others.

Here are the major lessons from the book:

• The important thing to get rich is by having a strong purpose for living, a determination to be a successful person. You need to have the rich mentality. Instead of dwelling with the fact that you are not rich, ask your self “how can I make more money” because this will stimulates the brain to take action.
• In order to get rich, one must work for himself and not for others.
• Understands what assets and liabilities are. The rich build up the asset column and the poor build up the liability column (expenses). Make sure you have assets that gives you income, like real assets, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, income-producing real estate, notes, royalties from intellectual property, etc.
• Opportunities in life come and go; the rich recognize them instantly and turn them into gold bullions. Others do not see these opportunities.
• Corporations spend first, then pay taxes on anything that’s left, while individuals must pay taxes first. Individuals may not be aware that they work from January to mid-May to enrich the government by paying taxes on their income. In the meantime, the rich are hardly taxed.
• People should hire other people who are more intelligent than they because by capitalizing on the knowledge of others, an intelligent individual builds his own knowledge base and therefore has more power over those who don’t know.
• Direct marketing, and management skills (manage cash flow, systems) are important.
• Make friends with successful people and people who enjoy talking about money because they may have valuable lessons to share.Learn more from this amazing book:

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