here seem to be two types because wealth, not job security,
of people in the was what they were after.
world—office slaves who
very nearly treat work as a Four years later, they were
religion and who are in danger of millionaires.
neglecting the very families for
whom they work so hard to While money is important, it
provide; and people who have isn't important in and of itself,
adopted more of a slacker and that is why Kiyosaki and his
mentality, convincing themselves wife didn't rush out to look for
that money isn't important the “good” jobs they both could
because they don't want to be have gotten. It's important
slaves to the workaday world. because it provides for your
basic needs and, if you have
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the enough of it, it can give you
Rich Dad book series, has money time to be with your loved ones
and he doesn't agree. “Anyone who and do the things in life that
says money isn't important truly make you happy.
obviously has not been without it
long,” he says in his book “Cash One thing a job will never give
Flow Quadrant.” you is extra time with loved
ones. In fact, it will take away
He knows because he has been in as much of that precious time as
both situations. For several you allow it to.
weeks in 1985, he and his wife
were so destitute, they were Everyone sees the Catch 22,
actually forced to live in their worrying that if they spend the
car, after which they moved into time working to make enough money
a friend's basement for nearly a to do the things they want to do,
year. They took only odd jobs, they won't have time to do those
things. That is true. Working is When you become an investor, you
not the answer. Making your money are simply getting your money
work, preferably in a solid from a different place. What you
investment like real estate, is want to do is take the money you
the answer. get from your job, and put it
into the I quadrant. That means
Kiyosaki seen been at that that you now have money working
crossroads himself. “Money is for you. Your money is making
important, but I did not want to money and you didn't have to lift
spend my life working for it,” he a finger for those extra dollars.
says in his Rich Dad series. That is how you can have your
Luckily he had the benefit of cake and eat it too—because the
that rich dad's knowledge of how money you make no longer
the financial world works to see represents hours of your life
him through. spent away in pursuit of a
living, you can take those hours
He knew that there was a way to and reinvest them in spending
be a responsible provider for his actual time with your family, in
family without spending most of pursuing hobbies, hanging out
his waking life working. He knew with friends. In short, you can
the secret was become an reinvest them in your life.
investor.
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