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