| What is the difference between people | | | | quadrants represents which sector a |
| who get rich and people who don't? It is | | | | person's money comes from. It also |
| a very simple question that many people | | | | represents the way that person thinks. |
| simply forget to ask. The first time you | | | | Are you beginning to see? The people in |
| are truly confronted with this question, | | | | the four quadrants are not there by |
| you will probably reach for an easy | | | | chance-they are there because they |
| answer, such as, "Being born into a rich | | | | experience life in fundamentally |
| family" or "Getting lucky with the | | | | different ways. |
| lotto" or even "Having a good career | | | | "The four people in the four quadrants |
| that pays a lot of money." And you might | | | | are four totally different people," |
| indeed be considered lucky if any of | | | | Kiyosaki says in his book "Cash Flow |
| those things had happened to you. | | | | Quadrant." "The four people found in the |
| The bad news for those lucky people is | | | | four different quadrants are different |
| that being in those circumstances is no | | | | mentally as well as emotionally." |
| guarantee of wealth. In fact, according | | | | What's more, Kiyosaki says, it is that |
| to Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich | | | | emotional difference that determines to |
| Dad book series, it isn't about how much | | | | which quadrant a person is drawn. And, |
| money you bring in, but how much money | | | | he says, you can always tell which |
| you keep that determines how wealthy you | | | | quadrant a person is coming from simply |
| are. | | | | by listening to what they say. If you |
| For instance, his father, the highly | | | | hear a person talking primarily about |
| educated man to whom he refers in his | | | | their benefits and job security, then |
| books as his "poor dad," always had a | | | | that person is coming from Kiyosaki's E |
| good salary. Yet, Kiyosaki said, at the | | | | or employee quadrant. He also goes on to |
| end of every quarter, he was practically | | | | say that it is perfectly all right to |
| penniless. | | | | live your life in the E quadrant if |
| The good news for you, is that becoming | | | | security is indeed the most important |
| rich has less to do with external | | | | thing to you. But, he adds, the E |
| factors like your job or whether you | | | | quadrant is the most difficult quadrant |
| were born a Rockefeller, which you can't | | | | from which to become rich. |
| control, and more to do with internal | | | | It sounds a little scary at first, but |
| factors which you can. | | | | this is actually good news for you. It's |
| Whether you ever become rich or not is | | | | good news because it means that, if you |
| determined, in large part, by nothing | | | | want to get rich, all you have to do is |
| more than how you think. | | | | start thinking more like the people who |
| The man Kiyosaki dubbed his "rich dad" | | | | live in the I, or investors, quadrant. |
| broke people down into four types and | | | | One of the best things you can invest in |
| set them on a graph he called the Cash | | | | is real estate. That is what Kiyosaki's |
| Flow Quadrant. On one side of the | | | | rich dad did, and it made him...well, |
| quadrant are the E's and S's, or the | | | | rich. In order to think like a real |
| Employees and the Self-employed. On the | | | | estate investor, simply tell your money |
| other side are the B's and I's, or the | | | | that you are through working for it. It |
| Businesspeople and the Investors. | | | | is time for your money to get to work |
| According to Kiyosaki, each of those | | | | for you. |