Comments on: Why Getting a Good Job isn’t the Best Way to Earn Money

By: camila

camila — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:08:22 +0000

This topic is so interesting!. I read RDPD in 2004 and Im reading it again. I agree with Sanne. The book is just a well told story about a very different point of view regarding money.
To take it as a Sacred Word and quit your job the next day is just lack of common sense.
I did quit a job 8 years ago (4 years BEFORE RDPD was even printed) because i realize it will take me to nowhere. I started my own small wedding invitations business. It is still small, (im the only employee), but Im very happy. Now Im finding new ways to make it grow and the books of Kiyosaki has helped me to see some of my mistakes about my relationship with money, work, and fear.
RDPD is a guide for you to think about your OWN concepts. Thats all.

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By: Asia’h Epperson

Asia’h Epperson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:12:55 +0000

Hi Steve,

Interesting analysis. Now, look like I need to reconsider whether to go ahead getting a job since I just finish my schooling.

Look like there is a lot of posts for me to catch up (why I found your blog so late)…. Thank again.

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:59:17 +0000

The discussion and article are very good!

One thing I’d wish people would do more often, however, is go in depth about how to acquire just ONE of those assets. I’d love to read about how to write a children’s book and get it published, but I don’t just want to be teased. I want to have enough information that I can go out and do it.

By: Sanne

Sanne — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:21:16 +0000

I know you wrote this post a while ago, but I feel the need to commend you anyway. You are spot on why getting a job is A way of making money, not THE way of making money. I’m 21 and I’ve written a (Dutch) children’s book when I was 16 and another one when I was 18. Both got published as part of a special ‘young talent’ series, but did not sell very well and my third manusscript got rejected. I won’t give up though and am working on a new series, but that’s a different story… cheesy pun fully intended.

I wrote those books years ago and still every year, I get royalties from my publisher. It’s not a J.K. Rowling worthy sum, but it’s the idea that matters. I only had to put in time and energy once, but the payout continues year after year. That’s the power of passive income, but I didn’t realize this until after reading Rich Dad/Poor Dad. Many people scoff and say he only makes his money from his books. Guess what? By pulling in those royalties, he’s practising exactely what he preaches! Go figure!

Some people here seem to ridicule you for ‘falling’ for Robert’s ‘tricks’, but they just don’t get it. RDPD isn’t a step-by-step-get-rich-quick book: it’s a story that makes a complex mindset simple and is meant to change the way we think about money. His cashflow quadrant illustrates these different mindsets perfectly:

let’s say you’re a painter, and a fairly talented one at that. How are you going to use that skill?

Employed: you go work for an agency as an artist for a set ammount of money a month. Perhaps there are comissions and bonusses to be earned, but overall it won’t matter much how productive you are, as long as you don’t get fired.

Self employed: you open an online shop and sell your canvas paintings for money, rather than selling your hours.

Business owner: you start an agency, hire other artists to make art for you and a manager to take care of the selling part. Another option that would fit in the ‘B’ quadrant would be to make a piece of digital art, put it on a website like cafepress, let them make endless copies of it and for a fee, let them deal with the printing and the shipping while you sleep.

Investor: you buy a piece of art and sell it when it has grown in value, or buy shares from an art-related business on the stockmarket.

This is what RDPD is trying to teach: how a mindset can make you poor or can make you rich. Who will earn more money? And who will spend the least time doing so? The E and the S? Or the B and the I? To me, it’s a no brainer and I’m grateful that I got to learn this lesson at my age, when I still have time to use it.

By: tracy Ho

tracy Ho — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:59:16 +0000

Great I should have do it 20 years ago, thank for your great article,
I will always guide the new generations to come

Brava , you inspired me,

To your success always,
Tracy Ho
wisdomgettingloaded

By: Security Agency Philippines

Security Agency Philippines — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:28:04 +0000

RDPD and Emyth revisited is a good business learning combination… RDPD serves to enlighten and give our entrepreneurial spirit a well deserved wake up call and emyth revisited to teach us just how to do it right!

By: LOVE

LOVE — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:43:15 +0000

HI STEVE=)! I AGREE THAT IF YOU ALWAYS CREATE THE BEST VALUE FOR OTHERS BY DOING WHAT YOU LOVE, THE $ WILL FOLLOW=) ALOHA FROM HAWAII!

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