How Anyone Can Build a pipeline Of

A Premonition of Pipelines 
My father did his best to rebuild his dynasty. But a 
bad economy and a bad heart conspired to prevent 
his comeback. He wasn’t bitter in his final days.
He was just disappointed that he had run out of 
time. 
So as we played chess, my father did his best to 
teach me the key principles that enabled him to 
amass a small fortune while he was still in his 40s. 

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My father often lectured me on the importance of 
owning your own businesses. Ownership meant 
independence and control. As far as my father was 
concerned, the more businesses you had, the better. 
“Your pipelines are your lifelines,”
he would say. I 
took my father’s lessons to heart. I opened my first 
business when I was only 25 years old. Today I 
own several fast-growing businesses. 
Ironically, one of my companies, Equibore, is a 
pipeline business – 
literally! 
Equibore, installs the 
underground conduit that “Old Economy” utility 
companies use to house their gas and water 
pipelines. “New Economy” telecom companies use 
the conduit for their fibre optic cables, the pipelines 
of the future. 
My Rich Dad, His Rich Dad 
My father was a big believer in diversification.
That’s why most of his 12 different businesses were 
in different industries. 
“If you’ve only got one pipeline, then you’ve only 
got one lifeline,” he’d say as he captured one of my 
chess pieces. “The more pipelines you’ve got, the 
better.” 
A few months ago I came across an audio tape by 
Robert Kiyosaki titled, 
What My Rich Dad Taught 
Me About Investing.
Kiyosaki tells a brief story 
about two young men who were hired to deliver 
water from a lake to their village a mile away. One 
of the young men used buckets to carry the water.
The other young man built a pipeline. Over the 
long run, the young man who built the pipeline 
fared far better than the bucket carrier. 

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Kiyosaki’s audio reminded me of the lessons my 
father taught me 25 years ago. That evening I went 
home and jotted down 10 pages of notes for a new 
book explaining the parallel between pipelines and 
lifelines and urging readers to diversify their 
income streams by building both short-term and 
long-term pipelines. 
I titled the book, 
The Parable of the Pipeline
. Three 
months later I handed my publisher the manuscript 
to the book you’re holding in your hands.