Around August, 2001, I was at my boyfriend's apartment while they were playing a game of CASHFLOW. I wouldn't be able to stay for the whole game since I had to be at work early the next morning, so I sat off to the side and watched. Eventually I picked up the copy of Cashflow Quadrant that was lying off to the side and started flipping through it. I had read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and was currently reading If You Want to Be Rich, Don't Go To School.

Cashflow Quadrant was very different from these other two books. It was where Kiyosaki presented the idea of four areas or quadrants and how people fit into them based on their finances and psychology.

I discovered I was of a very hard-core E/S (Employee / Self-Employed) mentality. But, happily, I was a Level Three Investor, thanks to my epiphany and implementation of my early retirement plan that I had had the precious year.

I still have not finished reading this book, but once I do, I will add my observations about it to this page, including the many walls I ran into while working my way through it.

At the end of this book, Kiyosaki has a Recommended Reading List. I have included it here, along with links to Amazon.com, if you are interested in purchasing them. Clicking on a book title will open a single, new browser window. I receive a small commission on each purchase made, thanks to Amazon.com's Affiliate program.

• At the Crest of the Tidal Wave by Robert Prechter (Economics)
• Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins (Personal Development)
• Creating Wealth by Robert Allan (Real Estate)
• Deals on Wheels by Lonnie Scruggs (Real Estate - limited availability)
• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber (Business)
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (Personal Development)
• God Wants You to Be Rich by Paul Zane Pilzer (Wealth)
• The Great Boom Ahead by Harry S. Dent, Jr. (Economics)
• How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O'Neil (Stocks)
• Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini (Personal Development)
• Over the Top by Zig Ziglar (Sales)
• The Sovereign Individual : How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg (Economics)
• The Sovereign Individual : Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg (Economics)
• Stone Soup : An Old Tale by Marcia Brown (Leadership)
• Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Dr. Van Tharp (Trading)
• Trading for a Living by Dr. Alexander Elder (Economics)
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (Economics)
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Wealth)
• Unlimited Wealth by Paul Zane Pilzer (Wealth - limited availability)
• What Works on Wall Street by james O'Shaughnessy (Stocks)
• Who Stole the American Dream by Burke Hedges (Network Marketing - special order)
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbronner (Economics)

 
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