Takeaways from Robert T. Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad

Saloni Kaur
8 min readJan 3, 2021

Very rarely do I complete reading a book and this book I did complete, so wanted to ensure I get the most out of it by documenting the important learnings.

The book I read.

My personal opinion, the book is great. Not just to inspire you to earn more money but for life in general. Even if you have no intentions of making money, the book provides a nice perspective to life. And how things around us run. Be it education, our 9 to 5 job, just living life to its fullest. This book has apt summaries after each chapter which is great when re-reading for revision. This article is for my own revision and digestion. Hope it helps others.

🌼: Represents my own thoughts.

Lesson 1: The rich don’t work for money

Money wouldn’t solve people’s problems. Many people who have high paying jobs still struggle with money problems — because they didn’t know how to make money work for them.

🌼 Robert goes on to explain how to make money work for you throughout the book. But the short answer is: Side hustles, being thrifty, have your own business, stocks, investments, etc

Rat Race: Most people have a price (a salary that they price themselves, for which they would work for corporations), because their lives are controlled by fear and greed…

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