Most Famous Books to Increase Financial Education:
1. Rich Dad Poor Dad
In the book Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Robert Kiyosaki advocates financial independence through owning businesses, investing, and real estate. He also talks about increasing one's financial intelligence.
What makes somebody rich? Is it hard work that matters the most? Or does one need to make the right financial decisions at the right time to be rich? This book answers these questions with the help of six easy to apprehend learn lessons. Written in the style of a set of parables, it is based on the real life of the author. Robert Kiyosaki takes the reader to his own childhood that he spent in Hawaii.
His biological father, the Poor Dad of the story, bought consumer goods for his family’s satisfaction and had to remain financially dependent for his entire life. The Rich dad, on the other hand, used his money to create more money-making assets. And this is the attitude that the author highlights throughout the book and says is the basic difference between the poor and the rich.
He values the ownership of high value assets more than being just an ordinary employee. He provides a new look at an old financial mindset. This book claims to teach people how to become rich without requiring a high income and take control of one’s financial future.
The book remained on The New York Times paperback ‘advice’ chart for 100 weeks. It has sold more than 26 million copies. Robert Kiyosaki, a millionaire himself, teaches what kids need to be taught about money and how even poor parents train their kids to be rich someday!
2.Think and Grow Rich
Self-help success books are available by the dozen, but one that is arguably the most famous is Think And Grow Richby Napoleon Hill. This book, a 1937 publication, is a motivational volume that assures readers of personal development, and teaches them quite a few tips and tricks to achieve success and to make money in life.
Hill was inspired to pen Think And Grow Rich by a suggestion from a successful businessman of his times, Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American. To write this book, Hill analyzed the typical characteristics of over 500 distinguished people who had achieved big in their lives, and based on this study came up with 16 ‘laws’ of success. In the final draft of the book, Hill condensed his 16 success formulae into 13 principles that can be regarded as the philosophies of personal development and achievement. The book highlights the fact that if an individual is boosted by a strong desire, decision and persistence, and can eliminate all negative vibes, he can climb high up the ladder of success.
The inspirational book that it is, Think And Grow Rich has altered the lives of millions of people across the globe since its first publication. By 2011, the book had sold more than 70 million copies worldwide. Hill’s biggest seller was ranked sixth on the BusinessWeek Magazine’s best seller list, 70 years after its first publication. This book also featured in theA Lifetime ‘Must-Read’ Books List by John C. Maxwell.
3.Cash Flow Quadrant
The cashflow quadrant is essentially a grid consisting of four quadrants which in this case uses the letters ‘E’, ‘S’, ‘B’ and ‘I.’ Here ‘E’ stands for employee while ‘S’ stands for self-employed. Analogously ‘B’ stands for business owner and ‘I’ stands for investor. Kiyosaki takes this basic quadrant pattern and throws in all the concepts and ideas pertinent to each of the quadrants. By doing this, Kiyosaki achieved a clear vision as to how they related to the phenomena of taxation, incentives and entrepreneurial vision.The debate central to the theme of Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant: Guide To Financial Freedom is the one that pits individuals in a choice between security and freedom and then exhibits the finality of the consequences.Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant: Guide To Financial Freedomhas grown to become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. It promises to deliver on the necessary tools for all individuals to find their freedom financially.
4.The richest man in the Babylon
The Richest Man In Babylon is a great inspirational work that dispenses sound advice on the subject of thrift, financial planning and personal wealth. The book is written in a very simple, easy-to-understand language, and it makes use of fascinating and informative parables that are set in ancient Babylon in order to illustrate practical financial wisdom. This bestseller offers an understanding of, and a solution to, all your personal financial problems and also reveals simple secrets on how to make money, keep it and how to make your money earn more money.
5. The Millionair Next Door
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Truth about Wealth in America exposes for the first time how ordinary Americans get and stay rich--withour inheritance, advanced degrees, or lottery jackpots. Readers learn the seven common denominators that show up again and again among people who have built their personal fortunes from scratch.
6..TheRichest Man Who Ever Lived
In this short, powerful book, multimillionaire and bestselling author Steven K. Scott reveals King Solomon’s breakthrough strategies to achieve a life of financial success and personal fulfillment.
Steve Scott flunked out of every job he held in his first six years after college. He couldn’t succeed no matter how hard he tried. Then Dr. Gary Smalley challenged him to study the book of Proverbs, promising that in doing so he would achieve greater success and happiness than he had ever known. That promise came true, making Scott a millionaire many times over.
In The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, Scott reveals Solomon’s key for winning every race, explains how to resolve conflicts and turn enemies into allies, and discloses the five qualities essential to becoming a valued and admired person at work and in your personal life. Scott illustrates each of Solomon’s insights and strategies with anecdotes about his personal successes and failures, as well as those of such extraordinary people as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, and Steven Spielberg.
At once inspiring and instructive, THE RICHEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED weaves the timeless truths of one of our greatest works of literature into a detailed roadmap for successful living today.
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