Wealthy Dad, Poor Dad is an absolute juggernaut of a e book–it’s been on the bestseller lists for so long as I keep in mind. I re-read this e book yesterday. Man, there are some actually nice factors, like how wealthy folks earn a living work for them and the way everybody else works for cash. The primary chapter is pure magic–learn it. Considered one of my favourite quotes is from his Wealthy Dad:
Most individuals by no means examine the topic [money]. They go to work, get their paycheck, steadiness their checkbooks, and that’s it. On high of that, they marvel why they’ve cash issues. Few notice that it’s their lack of economic training that’s the downside.
He takes a dim view of people that blindly make choices with out stopping to ask themselves why:
A buddy of mine in Hawaii is a good artist. He makes a large sum of money. In the future his mom’s legal professional referred to as to inform him that she had left him $35,000. That is what was left of her property after the legal professional and the federal government took their shares. Instantly, he noticed a possibility to extend his enterprise by utilizing a few of this cash to promote. Two months later, his first four-color, full-page advert appeared in an costly journal that focused the very wealthy. The advert ran for 3 months. He obtained no replies from the advert, and all of his inheritance is now gone. He now needs to sue the journal for misrepresentation.
It is a frequent case of somebody who can construct a phenomenal hamburger, however is aware of little about enterprise. Once I requested him what he realized, his solely reply was that “promoting salespeople are crooks.” I then requested if he can be keen to take a course in gross sales and a course in direct advertising. His reply, “I don’t have the time, and I don’t need to waste my cash.”
The e book does a improbable job instructing how to consider work and cash. Its early components are among the finest I’ve learn.