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