Commercial Rich Dad Poor Dad has sold over 32 million copies. The book has been translated to over 51 languages across 109 countries, and has been on the New York Times bestsellers list for over six years. It launched a series of books and related products; and received positive reviews from some
critics.
Reviews Actor
Will Smith said he taught
his son about financial independence by reading the book. PBS Public Television station
KOCE aired a 55-minute summary presentation of Kiyosaki titled "A Guide to Wealth" in 2006. PBS also honored him with an excellence in education award in 2005.
Donald Trump did a literary collaboration with Kiyosaki in 2006 called
Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men, One Message, and a second book called ''
Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich — And Why Most Don't'' in 2011. American fashion entrepreneur and investor
Daymond John has called the book one of his favorites. A competing financial self-help writer,
John T. Reed, says, "
Rich Dad, Poor Dad contains a large amount wrong advice, much bad advice, and virtually no good advice." He also states, "
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is one of the dumbest financial advice books I have ever read. It contains many factual errors and numerous extremely unlikely accounts of events that supposedly occurred."
Slate reviewer
Rob Walker called the book full of nonsense, and said that Kiyosaki's claims were often vague, the narrative "fablelike", and that much of the book was "self-help
boilerplate", noting the predictable common features of such books were present in
Rich Dad, Poor Dad. He also criticizes Kiyosaki's conclusions about Americans, American culture, and Kiyosaki's methods. == Publishing success ==