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First Edition: 1997

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20th Anniversary Edition: April 2017

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Contents

Table of Contents

The Beatles released the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album on June 1, 1967. It was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the UK and 15 weeks at number one in the United States. Time magazine declared Sgt. Peppers a historic departure in the progress of music. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968 as well as Album of the Yearthe first rock album ever to receive that honor.

Rich Dad Poor Dad was released 20 years ago, on my 50th birthday, on April 8, 1997. Unlike The Beatles story, the book was not an immediate commercial success. It was not a critical success. In fact, the books release and the firestorm of criticism that followed was quite the opposite.

Rich Dad Poor Dad was originally self-published because every book publisher we approached turned my book down. A few rejection slips offered comments like You do not know what you are talking about. I learned that most publishers are more like my highly-educated poor dad, than my rich dad. Most publishers disagreed with my rich dads lessons on money as did my poor dad.

Twenty Years Today

In 1997, Rich Dad Poor Dad was a warning, a book of lessons about the future.

Twenty years later, millions of people around the world are more aware of my rich dads warnings and his lessons about the future. With 20/20 hindsight, many have said that his lessons were prophetic predictions come true. A few of those lessons are:

Rich Dads Lesson #1: The rich dont work for money.

Twenty years ago, a few publishers turned my book down because they did not agree with rich dads number one lesson.

Today, people are more aware of the growing divide between the rich and everyone else. Between 1993 and 2010, over 50 percent of the increase in the national income in the United States went to the wealthiest one percent. Since then, things have only gotten worse. Economists at the University of California found that 95 percent of the income gains between the years 2009 and 2012 also went to that wealthiest one percent.

The lesson: The increases in income are going to entrepreneurs and investors, not to employeesnot to the people who work for money.

Rich Dad Lesson: Savers are losers.

Twenty years ago, most publishers vehemently disagreed with this lesson from rich dad. For the poor and middle class, saving money is a religion, financial salvation from poverty and protection from the cruel world. For many people, calling savers losers is like taking gods name in vain.