The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less The 80/20 Principle - that 80 per cent of results flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people and organizations. In one of the decade's most original, provocative and powerful books, The 80/20 Principle shows how you can achieve much more with much less effort, time and resources, simply by concentrating on the all-important 20 per cent. Astonishingly, though the 80/20 Principle has greatly influenced today's world, this is the first book which shows you how to use it in a systematic and practical way. The pattern of predictable imbalance underlying the 80/20 Principle was first stumbled upon a century ago by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto - roughly 80 per cent of the wealth went to 20 per cent of the people.
Rich Dad's Advisors: The ABC's of Real Estate Investing An excellent example of the helpful financial audios produced by Robert
Kiyosaki's Rich Dad company, Garrett Sutton's can-do lesson is an
excellent lesson on how to rise above debt. He provides a largely
sympathetic lesson on why people dig such holes for themselves and why
creditors let them. The information is nicely condensed and includes
illustrations that people at all intellectual levels will connect with.
The writing and the matter-of-fact reading are proactive--he doesn't
celebrate or condemn anyone's goofy money decisions. Know yourself, get
your attitudes and behavior under control, and then use the author's
formulas and action steps to wrestle your credit report, account by
account, back into something respectable
Rich Dad's Guide to Investing What the Rich Invest in, that the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
by Robert Kiyosaki
The rich are different from the rest of us, if for no other reason than
U.S. tax and securities laws allow them to invest in ways that keep us
from catching up to them.
That's why 90 percent of all corporate shares of stock are owned by 10
percent of the people. Kiyosaki believes it's possible for anyone to
move up into that 10 percent, but it takes a different view of
investing than most people have: it takes a plan to be a successful
investor. And a plan is more than simply buying and selling, or
collecting "assets" that bring in no cash and are thus more akin to
liabilities.
The way most people invest, "they might as well be pushing a
wheelbarrow in a circle," he writes. A plan is "mechanical, automatic,
and boring," a formula for success that has worked historically for
most of those who've used it. Kiyosaki's "rich dad" (actually, the
father of his best friend) tells him the simplest analogy is the game
Monopoly: buy four green houses, trade them for one red hotel, and
repeat until you become rich.
This book is many things at once: an instructional manual, a survey course, and a guidebook for deeper exploration. Feel free to read it from cover to cover if you want, or just browse until you find the chapters that appeal to you. Throughout the book, you’ll find meditations and exercises you can experiment with and enjoy.
This book features dozens of different meditations for a variety of purposes, drawn from a range of sources and traditions. And if you just want to understand why other people meditate — your partner, your friends, the guy in the office next to yours — jump onboard! You’ll discover whole chapters on why people meditate and how you can benefit from meditation, too.
