Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education

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In Unfair Advantage, Robert Kiyosaki challenges people around the world to stop blindly accepting that they are destined to struggle financially all their lives.

True financial education is the path to creating the life you want for yourself and your family. Robert encourages you to change the one thing that is within your control: yourself....

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Overview

In Unfair Advantage, Robert Kiyosaki challenges people around the world to stop blindly accepting that they are destined to struggle financially all their lives.

True financial education is the path to creating the life you want for yourself and your family. Robert encourages you to change the one thing that is within your control: yourself.

This book is about the power of financial education and the five unfair advantages that a real financial education offers:

The Unfair Advantage of Knowledge

The Unfair Advantage of Taxes

The Unfair Advantage of Debt

The Unfair Advantage of Risk

The Unfair Advantage of Compensation

Robert's fresh approach to his time-tested messages underscores the steps that move education into the applied knowledge that delivers measurable results.

In true Rich Dad style, Unfair Advantage challenges readers to appreciate two points of view and experience how the power of real financial education is their unfair advantage.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
It's back to the well for Kiyosaki, author of over a dozen books in the Rich Dad series, whose insights into business have made him extremely wealthy. Kiyosaki argues that saving money is "foolish," and in order to understand this, a financial education (to go along with your academic and professional ones) is necessary. In the course of the book, Kiyosaki reveals how much he likes gold, silver, and real estate, but wisely refuses to recommend them to everyone at all times. Besides savers, he also hates mutual funds and those who get into debt buying non-essentials. Using diagrams, bullet points, and subsections, Kiyosaki certainly makes his complex points more approachable, and dances a fine line between provocative prose and self-promotion. Kiyosaki's overall goal to change the way people think and learn about money is an important one. While he wants people to proactively seek a financial education, he also wants to promote his own brand. (Apr.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781612680101
  • Publisher: Plata Publishing, LLC.
  • Publication date: 4/12/2011
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 95,707
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert T. Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki

Educational Entrepreneur, creator of the CASHFLOW® board game, founder of the financial education-based Rich Dad Company and author of New York Times Bestsellers Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money and Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad – the #1 personal finance book of all time – which has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. Rich Dad titles hold four of the top ten spots on Nielsen Bookscan List’s Life-to-Date Sales from 2001-2008 alone. Robert has been featured on shows such as Larry King Live, Oprah, The Doctors, Bloomberg International Television and CNN.

With perspectives on money and investing that often contradict conventional wisdom, Robert has earned a reputation for straight talk, irreverence and courage. His point of view that ‘old’ advice - get a good job, save money, get out of debt, invest for the long term, and diversify - is ‘bad’ (both obsolete and flawed) advice, challenges the status quo. His assertion that “your house is not an asset” has stirred controversy but has been proven to be accurate in our economy’s current financial crisis. A documentary film based on the contradictions of ‘old financial advice’ is planned for release in 2010.

In 2006 Robert teamed up with Donald Trump to co-author Why We Want You To Be Rich - Two Men - One Message. It debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestsellers list.

Good To Know

On his success, Kiyosaki told us, "I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes."

In our interview, Kiyosaki said that his time in Vietnam was "a great experience for me.... I learned that to live in fear of dying was not living. I crashed three times in Vietnam -- but my crews always came back alive."

A major rugby fan, Kiyosaki has played all over the world.

According to Kiyosaki, "the power behind Rich Dad is women -- my business partners Kim Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter."

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    1. Hometown:
      Phoenix, Arizona
    1. Date of Birth:
      April 8, 1947
    2. Place of Birth:
      Honolulu, Hawaii
    1. Education:
      B.S., U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
    2. Website:

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Unfair Advantage #1: Knowledge 23

Chapter 2 Unfair Advantage #2: Taxes 57

Chapter 3 Unfair Advantage #3: Debt 87

Chapter 4 Unfair Advantage #4: Risk 119

Chapter 5 Unfair Advantage #5: Compensation 169

Conclusion: A Case for Capitalism 193

An Unfair ROI 203

Afterword 207

Special Section: The Five Levels of Investors 2011 211

Bonus FAQs 235

A Final Thought 277

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  • Posted August 4, 2012

    I've read all the books by Kiyosaki and a large number of financ

    I've read all the books by Kiyosaki and a large number of financial books written by others because I've noticed that the more I learn the more successful I am. When the market crashed my net worth actually increased significantly because of what I learned from Kiyosaki. Cash flow is king. This book is dead on and is now required reading for those I mentor. My only suggestion is that if you are new to the real world of investing is to be open minded when reading. - M. Cyrid.

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