Robert T. Kiyosaki

American · b. 1947

Robert Kiyosaki self-published Rich Dad Poor Dad in 1997 after every publisher passed; it became the best-selling personal finance book in history — 40 million copies built on one distinction between assets and liabilities. Marine pilot, salesman, serial entrepreneur, and cheerful provocateur, he made financial literacy a kitchen-table subject even his critics argue on his terms.