Review:

For those of you who have not yet read the original Rich Dad Poor Dad or at least its review on this site, I recommend you do so before diving into Cashflow.  This book is more of a sequel to Kiyosaki’s first book than anything else, however it does serve as a worthy stand-alone book if you so desire.

The real beauty of this book as well as any other from the Rich Dad series, is Kiyosaki’s amazing knack for writing in a way that is easy for even the most average of persons to understand. Whether you are a well versed personal finance expert or someone who has done little more than manage an allowance as a child, there is a lot here for both to learn.

Much of the book consists of Kiyosaki relating various career paths with his four quadrant system he has developed.  This system breaks careers and wealth building into the categories of employee, self- employed, business-owner and investor.  The real key to the whole system is getting yourself into either the business-owner or investor quadrants in order to really get on the path to financial success and freedom.  It is these two quadrants together that lead to great wealth building.

Some of the teachings will no doubt seem obvious and kudos to you if that is the case more often than not. The unfortunate truth is that a great majority of our society has been brought up thinking that the career path of being a great employee of a great company is what all our training as children all the way through university has been building towards.  Please don’t get me wrong, for many the path to success is directly up the corporate latter.  This is fine with me as long as those who have defined success in this way have done so while knowing all of the other options available.

If Robert Kiyosaki has done nothing more than bring attention to the fact that there is much more possibility to a career than getting a job for someone else, he has done us all a great service.  In fact there is much more available now than there ever was, and the opportunities will only grow. Those of you who have spent a few hours on Reading For Your Success have no doubt been unable to avoid the many experts proving this to be the case.  The books you will find here show you the many paths to financial and personal success.  It seems like every day someone is finding another unique and exciting way to define their success, so please continue to explore.

Reading Cash Flow Quadrant was extremely liberating for two reasons.  First off it made me even more aware of the new and exciting roads to success that were not encouraged throughout my years in university and prior.  For me I can never read enough about the road less traveled.  The second was that I knew there were millions of people reading Robert Kiyosaki’s books all over the world and there was a pretty good chance that like-minded excitement and inspiration was brewing in these fellow readers as well.

Keep in mind that it is not just you or me as individuals who are better off for reading books like Cash Flow and others on this site.  It is our success-minded population as a whole that is better off for those around us being as motivated and encouraged as we are.  Mark my words; it will be people just like yourself who will be with you all along your journey to success.  I encourage you to embrace the lessons in this book for their value, but more importantly I encourage you to embrace the experiences and opportunities that a book like this represents on your road to success.  The odds are that you will never be able to look back and pinpoint just one thing that led you to accomplish your goals, but instead it is the accumulation of all your knowledge and experience that grants you success.  Cashflow is another worthy lesson to add to the list.

-Reading for Your Success