40 Fun Facts About Rich Dad Poor Dad

Which family game did rich dad play with young Robert Kiyosaki while teaching the lessons of Rich Dad Poor Dad?

Monopoly was the classroom: rich dad shared his financial insights over the game with Robert and his own son, starting when Robert was nine.

Whose talk show gave Rich Dad Poor Dad its biggest sales lift after publishers had turned Robert Kiyosaki down?

Oprah Winfrey had the Kiyosakis on her show, and the company's own history credits that appearance with making the book famous worldwide.

Which famous businessman co-wrote Why We Want You to Be Rich with Robert Kiyosaki, nine years after Rich Dad Poor Dad?

Donald Trump had been impressed by the sales of Rich Dad Poor Dad, and the pair's joint book opened at number one on the New York Times list.

Which Hollywood actor said he taught his son about financial independence by reading Rich Dad Poor Dad?

Will Smith said he used it with his son Jaden, handing a book that began life self-published one of its best-known celebrity endorsements.

What does Rich Dad Poor Dad call the cycle of earning more and spending more without ever getting ahead?

The rat race traps people, the book argues, because each pay rise is spent instead of invested, so earning more never gets them ahead.

Rich Dad Poor Dad stirred debate by classing the home a family lives in as what?

A liability, the book says, because mortgage, taxes and upkeep drain cash; a house counts as an asset only once it is rented out at a profit.

Which rule from Rich Dad Poor Dad means setting money aside to invest before settling any bills or expenses?

Pay yourself first is meant to create pressure: with the investment already made, a person is forced to find new ways to cover the bills.

In which US state did Robert Kiyosaki grow up with the two father figures of Rich Dad Poor Dad?

Hawaii in the 1950s is the setting: Kiyosaki was born in Hilo into a family of Japanese descent.

At about nine, Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki charged other children ten cents for two hours with what?

Comic books that a store was about to destroy stocked the shelves, and the venture kept earning even when the two boys who owned it were not there.

Rich Dad Poor Dad grew out of a brochure Robert Kiyosaki drafted to explain which hard-to-market product?

A board game called Cashflow came first, and the brochure written to sell it swelled into the book the Kiyosakis self-published in 1997.

In Rich Dad Poor Dad, what is the first name of Robert Kiyosaki's best friend, whose father is the rich dad?

Mike sat in on the same lessons from the age of nine, and both boys spent their Saturdays working in one of his father's stores.

Which accountant is credited as co-author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, though the story is told in Robert Kiyosaki's voice?

Sharon Lechter co-wrote 14 more Rich Dad titles and ran the company as chief executive for about ten years before the partnership ended.

Which bookstore chain at first declined to stock the self-published Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki's account?

Barnes & Noble said no, he recalled, so he turned to radio and television instead, and the book went on to spend over six years on the New York Times list.

Which of rich dad's six lesson titles in Rich Dad Poor Dad sounds more like a rebuke than financial advice?

Mind your own business is lesson three; the idea is to keep a day job while steadily building an asset column of one's own.

Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki passed up an airline pilot's career to learn selling at which firm?

Xerox was a deliberate choice: rich dad had told him that selling is the number-one skill of an entrepreneur.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, flew which aircraft in combat during the Vietnam War?

Helicopter gunships nearly cost him his life: he crashed three times in Vietnam before coming home to learn how to sell.

Robert Kiyosaki's first company, Rippers, sold which surfer-style product made of nylon and Velcro in the 1970s?

Wallets made Rippers an instant hit, yet the company itself struggled, a failure Kiyosaki lived through two decades before Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Richard Kimi, named after his death as the model for rich dad in Rich Dad Poor Dad, made his fortune in what?

Hotels for budget travellers were his niche: he opened the 30-room Hukilau in 1956 for islanders who could not afford resort prices.

In Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow game, what name is given to impulse purchases that drain cash from a player?

Doodads sit along the track as tempting spaces, and players log each one on a personal financial statement instead of a score card.

According to Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki, the education system mainly prepares people to become what?

Employees are what classrooms turn out, Kiyosaki argues, which is why he says real financial education has to happen outside them.

Which president appointed the co-author of Rich Dad Poor Dad to a White House advisory council on money skills?

George W. Bush named her to a two-year term in 2008, while her lawsuit against her former writing partner was still before a Nevada court.

A 2002 Slate review said Rich Dad Poor Dad owed its appeal to which storytelling format, blurred with autobiography?

The parable was in fashion, the reviewer noted, and Kiyosaki's twist was to present his fable as something that had really happened to him.

Robert Kiyosaki's first book, written before Rich Dad Poor Dad, told seekers of wealth and happiness to skip what?

School is what the title tells readers to skip: the book is called If You Want to Be Rich and Happy, Don't Go to School?

In the Cashflow Quadrant from Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad series, what does the letter S stand for beside E, B and I?

Self-employed people, in Kiyosaki's phrase, own a job: they must keep working to earn, while the wealthy aim for the B and I side.

The poor dad of Rich Dad Poor Dad struggled with money all his life despite holding which advanced qualification?

A doctorate reflected his belief in specialising deeply, while rich dad urged knowing a little about a lot, from sales to accounting.

After a failed 1970 election bid, the real-life poor dad of Rich Dad Poor Dad sank his savings into what?

An ice-cream franchise swallowed the savings of a man who had once run the state's public education system, and it eventually failed.

Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad has a sister who gave up material wealth to become a nun in which religion?

Buddhism led Tenzin Kacho to ordination by the Dalai Lama, and in 2007 her brother phoned to propose that the two of them write a book together.

Which seminar promoter won a $23.7 million judgment against one of Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad companies?

The Learning Annex had staged his early talks for a share of the profits; the firm it sued, Rich Global LLC, filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki urges readers to buy which pair of metals, calling them God's money?

Gold and silver sit beside property and businesses in his own portfolio, and he has since added Bitcoin to the things he urges people to hold.

What does Rich Dad Poor Dad's Robert Kiyosaki call borrowing that puts money in the borrower's pocket each month?

Good debt is a tool, he argues, and in 2024 he said he was carrying more than $1 billion of borrowing himself.

Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki advises leaving a job only once which kind of earnings cover monthly expenses?

Passive income covering their bills is how the Kiyosakis say they stopped needing jobs in 1994, three years before the book appeared.

Which kind of investment supplies nearly every example Robert Kiyosaki gives from his own life in Rich Dad Poor Dad?

Real estate is his constant example, and he has kept buying it for decades, saying he judges a property by its cash flow rather than its resale price.

Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad traces today's education system, and its silence on money, to which era?

The Industrial Age shaped it, he argues, which is his explanation for why lessons on money never reached the timetable.

Which night course did Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad quit after six months, unimpressed by its teachers?

An MBA program lost him, he says, because its instructors were professional teachers who had never run a company themselves.

One of rich dad's six lessons in Rich Dad Poor Dad pairs the history of taxes with the power of what?

Corporations get a lesson because, the book argues, understanding tax rules and company structures is one of the four parts of financial intelligence.

In Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow game, tied to Rich Dad Poor Dad, players who escape the inner loop move onto what?

The fast track is the outer circle, where a player wins by buying a chosen dream or adding $50,000 of monthly cash flow.

Which American fashion entrepreneur and investor has called Rich Dad Poor Dad one of his favourite books?

Daymond John praised a book that divides opinion: Slate's reviewer dismissed much of it as self-help boilerplate.

Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad delighted his rich dad by quitting a well-paid job as third mate on what?

An oil tanker paid him $42,000 a year for seven months' work, yet he resigned after six months to enlist, to his poor dad's dismay.

The second of rich dad's six lessons in Rich Dad Poor Dad makes the case for teaching which subject?

Financial literacy, in Kiyosaki's breakdown of financial IQ, means accounting: reading the numbers to tell what earns from what costs.

Which futurist and architect does Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki say he studied with in the early 1980s?

Buckminster Fuller died in 1983, and his book Grunch of Giants, published that year, left such a mark that Kiyosaki still cites it in his own.