As we grow up, we are often told by our parents and peer groups to go to school, get good grades, enjoy education and to get a good and secure job at a company. We strive to gain wealth by working hard, and fighting for promotions and salary raises. At the same time, we try to get ourselves comfortable lives: a nice apartment, a car, fashionable clothing, and good lifestyle in general. We use credit cards and loans to finance things for which we do not yet have money readily …

Honestly, it costs me quite some effort and perhaps a bit of courage to write this article; finally, after having seen the book quite some times in my local bookstore but having ignored it due to its simple title, I decided to buy Rich Dad, Poor Dad – if it would have been called “an empiric study about the financial development of… ” I would have bought it sooner, in the end I currently live in Germany. I have still not read the entire book, and read through the first …