Rich Dad Poor Dad is a starting point for anyone looking to gain control of their financial future

There is a difference 
between being poor
and being broke.
Broke is temporary. 
Poor is eternal.

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Introduction
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A Lesson from Robert Frost
Robert Frost is my favorite poet. Although I love many of his poems, my 
favorite is “The Road Not Taken.” I use its lesson almost daily.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads onto way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— 
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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Rich Dad Poor Dad
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And that has made all the difference.
Over the years, I have often reflected upon Robert Frost’s poem. 
Choosing not to listen to my highly educated dad’s advice and attitude 
about money was a painful decision, but it was a decision that shaped 
the rest of my life.
Once I made up my mind about whom to listen to, my education 
about money began. My rich dad taught me over a period of 30 years 
until I was 39 years old. He stopped once he realized that I knew and fully 
understood what he had been trying to drum into my often-thick skull.
Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial 
education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about 
how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building 
wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because 
most people went to school and never learned how money works, so 
they spend their lives working for money.
Because I was only nine years old when I started, the lessons my rich 
dad taught me were simple. And when it was all said and done, there 
were only six main lessons, repeated over 30 years. This book is about 
those six lessons, put as simply as possible, just as simply as my rich dad 
put forth those lessons to me. The lessons are meant not to be answers, 
but guideposts that will assist you and your children to grow wealthier 
no matter what happens in a world of increasing change and uncertainty.

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Chapter One