Robert Kiyosaki is a Hawaiian businessman who made his name after building a company that sold velcro wallets. Although this was a great success to begin with the sales numbers dwindled as more and more stores started to import them. The company later went bankrupt and Kiyosaki was left in debt. His second business was a T-shirt company, which was very short lived, even more so than his wallet business. For the second time in his career he became bankrupt. Robert had no idea what to do about his failures as a businessman. One thing was certain he did not want to work for anyone but himself. This got him thinking and he started to realise that he could become a guru, a public speaker, someone who can teach others how to make money. He decided to set up a seminar, they quickly gained influence and popularity and were an instant success.

He became business partners with a man called Marshall Thurber, but he retired not long into their partnership, Robert decided to buy Marshall out and became partners with Marshall’s business associate D. C. Cordova. Within their first year together the pair were once again bankrupted. That wasn’t the end though, determined to get rich or at least never give up trying, Robert and Cordova battled on over the next decade until eventually took off and Robert began travelling the world speaking to people from all walks of life about money. Robert retired aged 47yrs old, but it wasn’t enough he had the hunger, so he came out of early retirement in a bid to feed his passion. He created a new company called Cashflow Technologies Inc and he created a boardgame called Cashflow 101, but it had varied success, his main moment of glory came when he wrote his book, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” it was a best seller in 90 countries and in 18 languages, you can even buy the book still now if you haven’t already read it?