A review by nekorocket
Rich Dad's Retire Young, Retire Rich: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever! by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

1.0

I am embarrassed that I fell for this scam of a book.

As an avid reader, I forgot my own rule of buying a book before falling for this POS:

1. First check the NEGATIVE reviews on both Goodreads (preferred) and Amazon (only for reference)
2. Then read the positive reviews

After this if I am still inclined to reading it, I buy the book. Because at least I had been warned and I made the choice MYSELF.

Now onto the book. It is full of 368 pages of repeated empty words. Empty words repeated 1000 times are still as void a blackhole. The latter at least has value in science.

So why did I fall for it? I have an "excuse". An entrepreneur by the name of Mitchell Harper is someone whose articles about startups I enjoy reading and take heed of. He listed this book in his book list: https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep-growing/the-18-books-that-made-me-a-better-entrepreneur-father-and-husband-c29b6adb970

Harper's main argument for the book basically comes down to one word, leverage. (Read his other posts and you'll realize he is fond of leverage. Who isn't.)

But the book does NOT tell you anything applicable about how to use leverage. Kiyosaki throws 21 chapters of baloney at you that delude you into believing you can apply it. Once you get down to actually THINKING about HOW you would apply it in your own life, you realize you only learned one thing: use leverage.

There, I just saved you $11.99 (for Kindle version) with these 2 words.

Let me also bring to your attention to the fact that there are a lot of controversies surrounding Robert Kiyosaki. Google his name and his books. Let's just say that if you avoid MLM, you would avoid this guy and his books.

Lastly, you don't have to believe me. But if you waste time reading or even buying it and then realize it was a big mistake, you have no one else to blame but yourself.

I made a mistake that is my own. Don't follow me.