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First Plata Edition: September 2013
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Authors’ Notes
Introduction
Part One:
Why Donald Trump And Robert Kiyosaki Wrote This Book
Chapter 1: Millionaire Meets Billionaire
Chapter 2: Our Shared Concerns
Chapter 3: The Shrinking Middle Class
Chapter 4: How To Make Yourself Rich
Chapter 5: Why We Want You To Be Rich
Part Two:
Three Kinds Of Investors
Chapter 6: Investing to Win
Chapter 7: Choosing Your Battle—And Battlefield
Chapter 8: There Is a Difference Between Savers and Investors
Chapter 9: The Two Things You Invest
Chapter 10: Winners Take Control
Chapter 11: Right-Brain and Left-Brain Creativity
Chapter 12: Think Big—Think Expansion
Chapter 13: Getting Very Rich Is Predictable…Not Risky
Part Three:
Defining Moments: Going Beyond Winning And Losing
Chapter 14: What Did You Learn from Your Father?
Chapter 15: What Did You Learn from Your Mother?
Chapter 16: What Did You Learn from School?
Chapter 17: How Did Military School Help Define Your Life?
Chapter 18: What Was the Defining Lesson You Learned from Sports?
Chapter 19: What Did You Learn from Business?
Chapter 20: What Are Your Philosophies Concerning God, Religion, and Money?
Part Four:
If You Were In My Shoes, What Would You Do?
Chapter 21: I Am Still In School, What Should I Do?
Chapter 22: I Am An Adult Without Much Money, What Should I Do?
Chapter 23: I Am A Baby Boomer Without Much Money, What Should I Do?
Chapter 24: What If I Am Already Rich, What Advice Do You Have for Me?
Chapter 25: Why Do Some People Who Want To Be Rich…Fail To Become Rich?
Part Five:
Just Get Started
Chapter 26: Why Do You Invest in Real Estate?
Chapter 27: Why Do You Recommend Network Marketing?
Chapter 28: Why Do You Recommend Starting Your Own Business?
Chapter 29: Leaders Are Teachers
Conclusion
PREDICTIONS COME TRUE
There are three points I want to make. These three points will explain why this book, Why We Want You To Be Rich, is more relevant today than when it was first released in 2006.
Point #1:
In 2004, when Donald Trump and I first got together, we found out we shared the same concerns. These shared concerns caused us to write this book. Some of these concerns are:
1. A falling U.S. dollar and how a falling dollar would wipe out savers and the wealth of the middle class.
2. The rise in the price of oil. As world consumption of oil increases the price of oil keeps going up. Oil affects everything, which means everything becomes more expensive. Again, this affects savers and the middle class.
3. Excessive debt. Not only is the consumer in debt, so is the U.S. government. Today, the world is spinning from the fall out of the sub-prime credit mess.
4. 401(k) plans and mutual fund companies ripping off their investors. Soon after this book was first published, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article validating our concerns.
Point #2:
When Why We Want You To Be Rich was first published in 2006, the book was severely criticized by many people. This edition of the book points out why those critics weren’t