No kidding. I just read through the other thread and your post in there perfectly summed up my feelings.

I am helping my company hire co-ops/interns and the second I see that crap on a resume, it's going straight in the shredder. To me, it's just plain poor judgment and poor decision making. And if you think a seminar will suddenly make you successful, then I don't know what to tell you...

Haha, i can't believe ppl still believe in that guy. The book is a good read for highschool students who has no idea what the real world is like. Take it with a grain of salt and the book is somewhat entertaining.

Those seminars r entertaining if u'r not easily influenced by hype. Finding flaws in thier presentations r quite fun tbh. Not the same but my mom took me to the World Financial Group recruiting seminar, they make everything sound so legit but when u have time to go home and actually think about wut they say, u'll have a good laugh.

Whatever u do, DON'T PAY FOR ANYTHING. DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE HAVING A DEAL OF YOUR LIFE. Those seminars happen all the time and those so-called savings are NOT gonna go away.

If you joined Perfect Water, you'll be in love at the Rich Dad seminar. They'll have your money by the end of the first 10 minutes.

edit: Have you tried those Acai Berries though? That's where the real money is! Mona Vie, go grab it now.. you'll be ballin' in no time.

LOL... I was just about to post that...

dad?

ive read the book before.
they'll tell you concepts, but they wont teach you how become rich.
it's more like...helping you get into a state of mind. there are no strategies or anything revealed.

hahaha i am the only person i bet that had to google what perfect water is.
I can't imagine how someone would believe in that. Or anyone with a grade 11 education...or..someone with google and can google distilled or purified water on Wikipedia.

no such thing as a free lunch ;)

For everyone dissing Robert Kiyosaki and his books/seminars there is an 18-25yo who has no clue about finances and needs some inspiration to learn more.

I was 23yo, knew nothing about housing, spent all my money on my car, and was content to keep blowing it having fun. I read Rich Dad Poor Dad and it made me think about my future finances and what I wanted. Today I am in much better financial shape cause I was inspired to care early.

Too many of my generation only start to care about finances when it starts to matter, in their late 20s, early 30s when they want to get married and start a family. By then they are playing catchup, if they had started much earlier they'd be far better off.

We need more books like this to inspire young people to care about their future finances instead of blowing it on iPhones and iPads.

People aren't dissing the book, they are dissing the scams they run now, which use the book's name and reputation.

While I agree with your post in spirit, I'm sure the people who own shares in Apple don't... and that is what our economy is largely based around now - endless and meaningless consumption.

Like Skinny said, there is nothing wrong with the book, it's a great educational and motivational tool.. but if you've ever been to the seminar, you'd wanna puke. My friend dragged me out to one a long time ago, and i forced him to leave half way through. The 'seminars' they have, which just use the book's reputation, are literally the same type of sales pitch you'd get at any MLM like perfect water or mona vie, or any of that crap.

Google only works for those smart enough to actually read the search results. Back in the perfect water thread, the OP said "I tried googling it, but all that came up was a bunch of crap about it being a scam..."
If you still go for it after that, well, you're helpless.

i had to search perfect water on RS
lols were had

these things always get you... you're gonna get motivated at the start to do it and succeed, and prove ur gonna succeed to anybody who thinks you're a dumbass

a couple of my friends from my old HS joined one of the pyramid schemes and they were all for it. asked people to go eat dinner with them and then out of nowhere they brough this person who came and started doing speeches convincing you to join. none of them followed up on that shit so im sure its not as great as they thought it was.

Buy low sell high? Holy shit!

I love how they talk about futures.

You go ask someone to sell their house to you 2 years later at todays price. After 2 years, you exercise your right and buy their house at lower than market value. Flip & profit.

Hahaha, like seriously, is anyone stupid enough to believe that it'll actually work in real life?

I don't know how useful or not his seminars/books are but I really like his one quote "Work to learn, not for money." :D