Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ

That you’re reading this excellent book means you’re on the right track to bettering yourself and your country.

Financial education isn’t just numbers and spreadsheets, although they’re certainly a part of it. Financial education requires a solid understanding of how business and government work (or don’t work as the case may be).

This is a lifelong process. You don’t have to be a genius to take part in this process; you simply have to be ready, willing, and able to learn.

For many people the key to abundant life and enjoying financial security is to understand the system and how to make it work for them—to gain financial intelligence and, as Robert puts it so well, to increase their financial IQ.

It is education alone that provides the knowledge necessary to remove barriers to opportunity. For by education we move past the limiting bonds of good intention and embrace an effective and informed pragmatism that only knowledge and understanding can bring.

The answer, like so many wise and effective solutions, is simple: education.

As Saint Bernard of Clairvaux would warn us, “Hell is full of good intentions or desires.”

What will my life be like if I take on this challenge and succeed?”

He asks for 10 percent and lets me keep the other 90 percent. You know what happens if you stop paying your partners? They stop working with you. That is why we tithe.

In other words, we swallowed our pride and did whatever it took to make the extra money. Somehow, we always made it; and somehow Betty stuck with us and assisted us with our problem, solution, and process, even though she worried more about us than we did.