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well as in sales, reservations, and marketing. He was grooming Mike
and me. That is why he insisted we sit in on the meetings with his
bankers, lawyers, accountants, and brokers. He wanted us to know a
little about every aspect of his empire.
When I quit my high-paying job with Standard Oil, my educated
dad had a heart-to-heart talk with me. He was bewildered. He could
not understand my decision to resign from
a career that offered high
pay, great benefits, lots of time off, and opportunity for promotion.
When he asked me one evening, “Why did you quit?” I could not
explain it to him, though I tried hard to. My logic did not fit his
logic. The big problem was that my logic was my rich dad’s logic.
Job security meant everything to my educated dad. Learning meant
everything to my rich dad.
Educated dad thought I went to school to learn to be a ship’s
officer. Rich dad knew that I went to school to study international
trade.
So as a student, I made cargo runs, navigating large freighters, oil
tankers, and passenger ships to the Far East and the South Pacific. Rich
dad emphasized that I should stay in the Pacific instead of taking ships
to Europe because he knew that the emerging nations were in Asia, not
Europe. While most of my classmates, including Mike, were partying at
their fraternity houses,
I was studying trade, people, business styles, and
cultures in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam,
Korea, Tahiti, Samoa, and the Philippines. I was partying also, but it
was not in any frat house. I grew up rapidly.
Educated dad just could not understand why I decided to quit and
join the Marine Corps. I told
him I wanted to learn to fly, but really
I wanted to learn to lead troops. Rich dad explained to me that the
hardest part of running a company is managing people. He had spent
three years in the Army; my educated dad was draft-exempt. Rich dad
valued learning to lead men into dangerous situations. “Leadership is
what you need to learn next,” he said. “If you’re not a good leader,
you’ll get shot in the back, just like they do in business.”
Returning from Vietnam in 1973,
I resigned my commission, even
though I loved flying. I found a job with Xerox Corp. I joined it for
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one reason, and it was not for the benefits. I was a shy person, and the
thought of selling was the most frightening subject in the world. Xerox
has one of the best sales-training programs in America.
Rich dad was proud of me. My educated dad was ashamed. Being
an intellectual, he thought that salespeople were below him. I worked
with Xerox for four years until I overcame my fear of knocking on
doors and being rejected. Once I could consistently
be in the top five
in sales, I again resigned and moved on, leaving behind another great
career with an excellent company.
In 1977, I formed my first company. Rich dad had groomed
Mike and me to take over companies. So I now had to learn to form
them and put them together. My first product, the nylon-and-Velcro
wallet, was manufactured in the Far East and shipped to a warehouse
in New York, near where I had gone
to school.
My formal education was
complete, and it was time to test my
wings. If I failed, I would go broke.
Rich dad thought it best to go broke
before 30. “You still have time to recover” was his advice. On the eve
of my 30th birthday, my first shipment left Korea for New York.
Today, I still do business internationally. And as my rich dad
encouraged me to do, I keep seeking the emerging nations. Today my
investment company invests in South American countries and Asian
countries, as well as in Norway and Russia.
There is an old cliché that goes: “Job is an acronym for ‘Just Over
Broke.’” Unfortunately, I would say that applies to millions of people.
Because school does not think financial intelligence
is an intelligence,
most workers live within their means. They work and they pay the bills.
There is another horrible management theory that goes, “Workers
work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that
workers won’t quit.” And if you look at the pay scales of most companies,
again I would say there is a degree of truth to that statement.
The net result is that most workers never get ahead. They do what
they’ve been taught to do: Get a secure job. Most workers focus on
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