partying,
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 told me of the
value of 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 1973,1 resigned my
commission, even though I loved flying. I found a job with Xerox Corp. I joined it for 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 1977,1 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 went
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
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America, Asia, Norway and Russia. There is an old cliche that goes, “Job is an acronym for 'Just
Over Broke.'” And unfortunately, I would say that the saying 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 in 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 working for pay and benefits that
reward them in the short term, but is often disastrous in the long. Instead I recommend to young
people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the
road at what ; skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before
getting trapped in the “Rat Race.”
Once people are trapped in the
lifelong process of bill paying, they 1 become like those little hamsters running around in those
little metal wheels. Their little furry legs are spinning furiously, the wheel is turning furiously, but
come tomorrow morning, they'll still be in the same cage: great job.
>In the movie Jerry Maguire, starring Tom Cruise, there are many great one
liners. Probably the most memorable is “Show me the money.” But there is one line I thought
most truthful. It comes from the scene where Tom Cruise is leaving the firm. He has just been
fired, and he is asking the entire company “Who wants to come with me?” And the whole place
is silent and frozen. Only one woman speaks up and says, “I'd like to but I'm due for a
promotion in three months.”
That statement is probably the most
truthful statement in the whole movie. It is the type of statement that people use to keep
themselves
busy working away to pay bills. I know my educated
dad looked forward to his pay raise every year, and every year he was disappointed. So he
would go back to school to earn more qualifications so he could get another raise, but again, it
would be another disappointment.
The question I often ask people
is, “Where is this daily activity taking you?” Just like the little hamster, I wonder if people look at
where
their
hard
work
is
taking
them.
What
does
the
future
hold?
>Cyril Brickfield, the former executive director of The American Association of
Retired People, reports that “private pensions are in a state of chaos. First of all, 50 percent of
the workforce today has no pension. That alone should be of great concern. And 75 to 80
percent of the other 50 percent have ineffective pensions that pay $55 or $150 or $300 a
month.”
In his book The Retirement Myth, Craig S. Karpel writes:
“I visited the headquarters of a major national pension consulting firm and met with a managing
director who specializes in designing lush retirement plans for top management. When I asked
her what people who don't have corner offices will be able to expect in the way of pension
income, she said with a confident smile: ”The Silver Bullet.'
"
'What,' I asked, 'is The Silver Bullet?'
“She shrugged, 'If baby
boomers discover they don't have enough money to live on when they're older, they can always
blow their brains out.'” Karpel goes on to explain the difference between the old Defined
Benefit retirement plans and the new 401K plans which are riskier. It is not a pretty picture for
most people working today. And that is just for retirement. When medical fees and long-term
nursing home care are added to the picture, the picture is frightening. In his 1995 book, he
indicates that nursing-home fees run from $30,000 to $125,000 per year. He went to a clean
no-frills nursing home in his area and found the price to be $88,000 a year in 1995.
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