• Unfair Advantage

  • The Power of Financial Education
  • By: Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Narrated by: Tim Wheeler
  • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,528 ratings)

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Unfair Advantage

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Narrated by: Tim Wheeler
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Publisher's summary

On the heels of his 2010 New York Times bestseller Conspiracy of the Rich, Robert Kiyosaki takes a hard-hitting look at the factors that impact people from all walks of life as they struggle to cope with change and challenges that impact their financial world.

In Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education Robert underscores his messages and challenges readers to change their context and act in a new way. Listeners are advised to stop blindly accepting that they are "disadvantaged" people with limited options. They are encouraged to act beyond their concept of limited options and challenge the preconception that they will struggle financially all of their lives.

Robert’s fresh approach to his time-tested messages includes clear, actionable steps that any individual or family can take, starting with education. Education becomes applied knowledge, a powerful tactic with measurable results.

In true Rich Dad style, readers will be challenged to understand two points of view, and experience how financial knowledge is their unfair advantage.

What does school teach you about money? In most cases, the answer is “Not much.” If there is any financial education, the courses are taught by financial planners and bankers… the agents of Wall Street and the big banks, the very people that caused and profited from the financial crisis.

This book is about real financial education. This book is about how debt and taxes make the rich richer…and why debt and taxes makes the poor and middle class struggle.

This book explains why the rich get richer, paying less in taxes, while the middle class shrinks - with many losing jobs, homes, and retirement—and paying more in taxes. This book is about the five unfair advantages 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

These five unfair advantages are the outcomes of real financial education.

©2012 Robert T. Kiyosaki (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

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Repetition

I am not happy at a with this book.
It is almost an exact repetition of "cash flow" book and the other book "increase your financial Iq"
I barely heard new knowledge in this book which does not exist in the other two books.
Also it seems Robert went too far in advertising indirectly for his educational seminar which too much repetition and insistence on his educational seminar affect the credibility of the message because it is his own seminar and his own company. I would rather prefer to produce one NEW & excellent book rather than repeating his own previous books and make every new book a platform for advertisement for his seminar and game. Robert is a great thinker and educator but I do not understand why he follows these cheap sales strategies.

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Repeat of all of his books.

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Given it substance. I often felt like I accidentally hit the rewind button because he repeated himself so much! It just didn't have anything viable to say.

Has Unfair Advantage turned you off from other books in this genre?

No

Was Unfair Advantage worth the listening time?

no

Any additional comments?

Don't waste your money. There are plenty of books that actually provide usable information.

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Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Rep...

Message 1- READ ALL OF MY BOOKS.
Message 2- I am rich
Message 3- The world is broke.
Message 4- Read all of my books.
Message 5- I am rich...

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Same material as other Kiyosaki books

Same information, more stories, more details but no new lessons from the other books he's put out.

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Wish I had known this 20 years ago

There is so much common sense in this audio. I wish I had listened to it 20 years ago. Still never to late...
I recommend this audio - it is easy to listen to and very practical. Definitely worth the cost.

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This book changed my life!

This is one of the books in The RICH Dad series that changed my life. It seems slightly different then the hardcover book but, I could be wrong. Either way this is a great book. It did a great job breaking down taxes and how it affects your wealth. A must read or hear!

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blatant partisan political endorsement

The most important tips in this book were about what it takes to find investment property and continuing one's financial education. The rest was a blatant republican party endorsement from an ultra arrogant assclown. What was particularly laughable was that I'm supposed to believe that Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump want me to be rich. The author keeps referencing the other book he wrote with "The Donald." Donald Trump needs to have a coherent thought, STFU with the ignorant comments, and continue milking his current scams until he goes bust and files for bankruptcy again. How many times has he filed for bankruptcy? I could be a billionare too if I didn't have to payback the money that I lost. If these guys really cared about balancing the national budget, they would be endorsing Libertarian candidates like Gary Johnson who embody what the Republican party used to be. The new Republican party represents the worst of corruption, and the lunatic fringe. I lost almost all respect for Robert K. after this book.

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Not Practical for Most People

Most of the advice in this book is not geared towards the regular working employees with traditional savings/investment/retirement plans. It is not feasible for everyone to pull money out of traditional investments and start buying up hotels, gold mines, and oil drilling companies, like the author did. I was looking for some more practical advice areas where a majority of people have their investments: paper assets. The author did have a few good explanations around money flow and the sub-prime mortgage crisis. I would not recommend this book for the average investor who invests in mainly paper assets.

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I Want My 9 Hours Back

I will start off by saying I enjoyed Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Although the book goes on a long tangent to sell Kiyosaki's board game, there are some good core principles in it. Know the difference between an asset and a liability, try to obtain more assets than liabilities and gain cash flow. But this book is just a repetition of that and offers nothing new.

Did you know that Robert Kiyosaki predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis? Well if you didn't, he tells you it about a hundred times in this book. Followed up with "I'm not bragging... but I did predict it" every time.

This was essentially the whole book, "I got rich off of gold and real estate but I'm not saying you should buy either of those", "401Ks are evil and designed to make you poorer but I'm not saying 401Ks are bad", "Unions want to work less and be paid more but I'm not saying unions are bad". Just one backpedal after the next. After every backpedal he would say, "You need to build your financial education up." Yeah I know that's why I'm listening to an audiobook about finance. It's like if you were to buy a book about training your dog and the book just kept coming back to saying, "I'm not going to tell you how to train your dog, that is something you are going to have to learn on your own." You'd find the book pretty useless.

The last third of the book was him constantly selling his real estate classes and board game. It's one thing to mention it at the end as if to say "If you want to learn more check these out" but it's probably the last 1.5-2 hours of the book is him selling his stuff. If his classes are anything like this book then he has nothing to offer but vague guru statements that don't get you anywhere.

I know this book is 10 years old so some principals may change but core financial education can be long lasting like "Think and Grow Rich" or "The Richest Man in Babylon" but this book is just a rehash of his older books with a ton of fluff to make it seem like he tried.

Luckily this was part of the Audible + subscription so I'm not out any money but I did lose 9 hours of my life that I'll never get back.

To top it off, Kiyosaki filed for bankruptcy a year or two after this book came out so either his principles are garbage or he didn't bother to follow them. It's also a little hypocritical of him to harp on people wanting the government to take care of them but as soon as he couldn't pay a debt he had the government and banks protecting his personal assets.

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Life Changing!

So grateful that Robert is helping to turn the word Capitalist into its proper meaning.

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