Rich
Dad Poor Dad
Robert T.
Kiyosaki
Just like a board game, the world is always providing us with instant feedback. We could learn a
lot if we tuned in more. One day not long ago, I complained to my wife that the cleaners must
have shrunk my pants. My wife gently smiled and poked me in the stomach to inform me that
the
pants had not shrunk, something else had expanded me!
The game CASHFLOW was designed to give every player personal feedback. Its purpose is to
give you options. If you draw the boat card and it puts you into debt, the question is, “Now what
can you do?” How many different financial options can you come up with? That is the purpose
of the game: to teach players to think and create new and various financial options.
I have watched this game played by more than 1,000 people. The people who get out of the
“Rat Race” in the game the quickest are the people who understand numbers and have creative
financial minds. They recognize different financial options. People who take the longest are
people who are not familiar with numbers and often do not understand the power of investing.
Rich people are often creative and take calculated risks.
There have been people playing CASHFLOW who gain lots of money in the game, but they
don't know what to do with it. Most of them have not been financially successful in real life
either. Everyone else seems to be getting ahead of them, even though they have money. And
that is true in real life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money and do not get ahead
financially.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
CHAPTER SEVEN
Lesson Six:Work to Learn -Don't Work for Money
>In 1995,1 granted an interview with a newspaper in Singapore. The young
female reporter was on time, and the interview got under way immediately. We sat in the lobby
of a luxurious hotel, sipping coffee and discussing the purpose of my visit to Singapore. I was to
share the platform with Zig Ziglar. He was speaking on motivation, and I was speaking on “The
Secrets of the Rich.”
“Someday, I would like to be a best-selling
author like you,” she said. I had seen some of the articles she had written for the paper, and I
was impressed. She had a tough, clear style of writing. Her articles held a reader's interest.
“You have a great style,” I said in reply. “What holds you back from
achieving your dream?”
“My work does not seem to go anywhere,”
she said quietly. “Everyone says that my novels are excellent, but nothing happens. So I keep
my job with the paper. At least it pays the bills. Do you have any suggestions?”
>“Yes, I do,” I said brightly. “A friend of mine here in Singapore runs a school
that trains people to sell. He runs sales-training courses for many of the top corporations here in
Singapore, and I think attending one of his courses would greatly enhance your career.”
She stiffened. “Are you saying I should go to school to learn to
sell?”
I nodded.
“You aren't serious,
are you?”
Again, I nodded. “What is wrong with that?” I was now
backpeddling. She was offended by something, and now I was wishing 11 had not said anything.
In my attempt to be helpful, I found myself defending my suggestion.
>“I have a master's degree in English Literature. Why would I go to school to
learn to be a salesperson? I am a professional. I went to school to be trained in a profession so I
would not have to be a salesperson. I hate salespeople. All they want is money. So tell me why|
I should study sales?” She was now packing her briefcase forcibly. The interview was over.
On the coffee table sat a copy of an earlier best-selling book I wrote. I I
picked it up as well as the notes she had jotted down on her legal pad. | “Do you see this?” I
said pointing to her notes.
She looked down at her notes. “What,”
she said, confused.
Again, I pointed deliberately to her notes. On
her pad she had written “Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author.”
“It
says 'best-selling author,' not best 'writing' author.”
Her eyes
widened immediately.
“I am a terrible writer. You are a great
writer. I went to sales school. You have a master's degree. Put them together and you get a
'best-selling author' and a 'best-writing author.'”
Anger flared from
her eyes. “I'll never stoop so low as to learn how to sell. People like you have no business
writing. I am a professionally trained writer and you are a salesman. It is not fair.”
>The rest of her notes were put away, and she hurried out through the j, large
glass doors into the humid Singapore morning.
At least she gave
me a fair and favorable write-up the next morning.
The world is
filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people. We meet them every day. They are all
around us.
A few days ago, my car was not running well. I pulled
into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes. He knew what was