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Money is one form of powerBut what is more powerful is financial educationMoney comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealthThe reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money
Because I was only 9 years old when I started, the lessons my rich dad taught me were simpleAnd when it was all said and done, there were only six main lessons, repeated over 30 yearsThis book is about those six lessons, put as simply as possible as my rich dad put forth those lessons to meThe lessons are not meant to be answers but guidepostsGuideposts that will assist you and your children to grow wealthier no matter what happens in a world of increasing change and uncertainty

Lesson #1 The Rich Don't Work for Money
Lesson #2 Why Teach Financial Literacy?
Lesson #3 Mind Your own Business
Lesson #4 The History of Taxes and the Power of Corporations
Lesson #5 The Rich Invent Money
Lesson #6 Work to Learn Don't Work for Money

CHAPTER TWO
Lesson One: The Rich Don't Work For Money

"Dad, Can You Tell Me How to Get Rich?"
My dad put down the evening paper"Why do you want to get rich, son?"
"Because today Jimmy's mom drove up in their new Cadillac, and they were going to their beach house for the weekendHe took three of his friends, but Mike and I weren't invitedThey told us we weren't invited because we were `poor kids'
"They did?" my dad asked incredulously I replied in a hurt tone
My dad silently shook his head, pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and went back to reading the paperI stood waiting for an answerBy some twist of fate, I attended the same public school where the rich people sent their kidsWe were primarily a sugar plantation townThe managers of the plantation and the other affluent people of the town, such as doctors, business owners, and bankers, sent their children to this school, grades 1 to 6After grade 6, their children were generally sent off to private schoolsBecause my family lived on one side of the street, I went to this schoolHad I lived on the other side of the street, I would have gone to a different school, with kids from families more like mineAfter grade 6,these kids and I would go on to the public intermediate and high schoolThere was no private school for them or for