Hours before, I met up with Robert Kiyosaki at his hotel in Santiago to have a drink and catch up; he's in town giving a series of seminars and invited me to come over and hang out for a bit.

After a couple of hours of great conversation, I accompanied him to the venue where the audience was eagerly waiting for him to speak.

Robert's seminal work Rich Dad, Poor Dad changed so many lives and completely shattered the staid, traditional notions of finance and success.

Perhaps one of his biggest ideas from the book is that most school systems simply do not prepare people for success.

You don't learn critical lessons in school like how to invest money, how to start a successful business, how to create value and improve the lives of other people.

Instead, you learn how to be a good taxpayer.

And as usual, Robert's remarks were spot-on last night.