Rich Dad's Guide to Investing
Chapter One
What Should I Invest In?
In 1973, I returned home from my tour of Vietnam. I felt fortunate
to have been assigned to a base in Hawaii near home rather than to a
base on the East Coast. After settling in at the Marine Corps Air
Station, I called my friend Mike and we set up a time to have lunch
together with his dad, the man I call my rich dad. Mike was anxious
to show me his new baby and his new home so we agreed to have lunch
at his house the following Saturday. When Mike's limousine came to
pick me up at the drab gray base BOQ, the Bachelor Officers'
Quarters, I began to realize how much had changed since we had
graduated together from high school in 1965.
"Welcome home," Mike said as I walked into the foyer of his
beautiful home with marble floors. Mike was beaming from ear to ear
as he held his seven-month-old son. "Glad you made it back in one
piece."
"So am I," I replied as I looked past Mike at the shimmering blue
Pacific Ocean, which touched the white sand in front of his home.
The home was spectacular. It was a trop ... read full excerpt from: Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! ebook
