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As with this whole investing gig ... it's about finding what works for you.

Thanks for the Graeme ... just finished reading it. Sigh - if only my exuberance and arrogance of youth had toned down so I learnt the lessons both RDPD and Babylon taught :o Not to late tho! As for the story ... RDPD was much easier to read, grasp the concept, had more detail and related...

Thanks Graeme ... will have a read when the weather is too hot this afternoon

nah - touche Jaycee! :D Actually - can't tell you if it's like Richest Man in Babylon. I didn't make it much past the first chapter as found RMIB boring ... whereas RDPD has me rivited. Maybe it was more a case of timing ... should rebuy RMIB for another try.

I think what a lot of critics miss is that RK is NOT teaching you how to make a million dollars ... he is teaching you how to recognise what skills you need so that you can make yourself a million dollars. He is leading you to water - not showing you how to drink. He is giving you options...

Of course he does, otherwise he wouldn't make the claims. I do wonder if the claims or the justifcation came first tho? And what is to be achieved by someone most of us haven't heard of bagging out an internationally reknowned writer that has educated so many of the financially illiterate...

ummmm - obvious you haven't even read the first book. Hard to make an opinion on something you know nothing about ... Even if he helped only 1% of those who read his books - like myself - then yahooo - 1% less relying on government pensions.

I found the first book extremely helpful ... only because, even after taking a very confusing accounting course at school, I was completely cashflow illiterate and his example of cash in and out - income and expenses - assets and liabilities - was a real eureka moment for me. I then had to go...