Rich People, Poor People. 7 Ways They Differ.

This was posted on a local Forum in Rogersville, Tennessee. The author describes seven ways he believes rich and poor people differ.

What does everyone think?

"1. Rich people believe that they create their lives while poor people believe that life happens to them. Can you see why rich and successful people are able to create amazing results in their life right now?

It is simply because they are in control of their lives. They believe that they are the ones who is responsible for their lives, they are the ones who is creating their future, not the economy or the knowledge or luck.

On the other hand, poor people will always give excuses and blame on the circumstances. When they failed in their business, they will blame the economy, their boss, their family or anything that did not go according to their plan.

Whenever you believe that life happens to you, you will lose the power to change and the power to control your future. You must believe that you’re the one who is creating your future, not other people or events.

2. Rich people play the money game to win but poor people play the money game just not to lose money. This is a big mindset difference.

Have you ever seen people invest in the stock market? Some people are so afraid that they will lose their money and they form a mindset that blocks their creativity. They formed the mindset of ‘investing not to lose the money’.

However, rich and successful people know exactly how they need to think in order to win the game of money. They will think and act from the view of playing the game to win. Unlike poor people, they will never invest just not to lose the money.

3. Rich people think and focus on opportunities while poor people focus on obstacles. When you face with problems, what are you focus on?

Are you focus on the problems, thinking how bad the situation is going to be? Or are you focusing on the solution and thinking about how you can solve or even turn the situation into opportunity?

Think about this carefully. No matter who you are, you will definitely face with all kinds of choices in your life. And when you need to decide to move on, try to notice on you thinking, what do you focus on, the solution, or the problem?

4. Rich people dare to dream big, poor people think small. When I tell my parents that I want to make a million dollar, they will tell me,“Why do you need so much money? You can live a very good lifestyle if you got a job that has a good pay. You don’t need to be a millionaire.”

I don’t know about you, but this statement happens to me all the time. And I definitely believe that poor people will tend to think small while rich people always think big.

To poor people, they will think that rich people are greedy because they always think big. Is it true that you are being greedy if you think big? I don’t know if I buy this, but to me, I’ll think of it as a waste if you’re not using the resources available (your thinking) to you at full.

Don’t you owe it to everyone around you to create a better life for them? Don’t you want your family to live good? So think big and create the abundance lifestyle for these people right now.

5. Rich people are committed to their dreams, poor people are just dreaming about their dreams. Yes, this is an obvious one.

If you’re not committed to be rich, you can never be rich. How many times have you heard people say that they want to be rich, but they never do anything about it?

This is the mentality of poor people. They will just think about how good it is going to be if they are rich, but they will never do anything about their dreams. They know that they cannot afford a luxury car if they have a low pay job. The thing is, they never do anything to change it.

On the contrary, rich and successful people are committed toward their dreams. They will do whatever it takes, in the boundary or moral and ethics of course, to achieve their dreams.

6. Rich people associate with rich and successful people. Poor people will associate with poor people. Do you have any rich friends? Or all of your friends are poor?

I’m not suggesting that you need to stop making friends with poor people, what I’m suggesting it, try to get to know more about rich people. The more you mix with them, the more you will think like them. And if you think like them, you will start to create amazing results just like them.

If most of your friends are poor and their working salary all are below $2,000, you will be having the same range of salary most of the time. However, if you associate with rich people who are making $2,000 in just a day, you will start to see the possibility of what you can accomplish in your life.

And this will change your thinking of what you can achieve in your life. $2,000 will become a small amount for you once you changed your mindset about money.

7. Rich people good learners while poor people think that they have learned everything in the world. One of the fastest ways to be financially abundance is to learn directly from people who have already achieved this status.

And if you’re not willing to learn, you will never be able to be successful. If you want to get the best pay, you must be the best. And the only way you can be the best is to learn from the best and learn to be the best."

 

I agree with most of that but be prepared to get torched.

 

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bobov believes the affirmative. Oh why, Oh why wasn't he of the Elect?

 

It's true - most people who are poor made poor decisions which caused them to wind up stuck there

 

Because I don't have all of these traits. Do you know any poor people who do? Do you know any self-made rich people who don't?

 

To sum up, the rich are ruthless, and the poor are to be exploited, for the benefit of the ruthless.

 

And remember the best advice of all: Don't be born into a poor family.

 

Absolutely! Marry into wealth, if need be. Never be born poor. That's what 'losers' do.

 

Come back and tell me when you have thought yourself in to riches...

 

I'll bet Jesus only takes American Express gold, huh?

 

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet did

 

That's great. Now their kids won't have to lift a finger to actually work for generations, and if they happen to lose it at the Wall Street casinos, the taxpayer will bail them out. Nice gig. It's great to be ultra rich, isn't it?

 

Because if Bill Gates' parents were poor, that somehow would've prevented him from making billions off of his ideas

That'd be like saying being "born into a family who plays tennis" is going to "force you to become a tennis player" when you grow up - or maybe some on the left are really so indoctrinated that they think every 'rich' person just magically "got" that money given to them and never worked a day in their life.

The best cure for 'poverty' is overcoming laziness

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And how's it your business if they choose to give their kids their own money?

 

Is isn't. I'm just sayin' that it's great to be ultra rich where nobody has to work, and be able to call everybody losers who won't get a job. That's all.

 

Yeah like Michael Moore or Al Gore who 'got rich' off of medicore propaganda films, and spend their time decrying the "evil 1%"

 

Since 1% owns 40% of the wealth, I'd say that 1% doesn't ever have to do anything, is the point. Their families can pretend they're royalty being born with the gold spoons stuck in their mouths. Is this the "they do it too" argument?

 

Gates is is exceptional. You can always find exceptions. If you are born poor but are intelligent enough you might be able to figure a way out. But you will have to work much harder than someone with the same intellect but who was born rich.

The average IQ is around 100. The average person born into a poor and uneducated family is very likely NOT going to become rich, no matter how hard he works at it. A few will get lucky, but most won't.

The idea that ANYONE can be rich as long as they work hard enough is a myth.

 

The myth developed by the born ultra rich, no doubt, used to control the masses, BSing them that "they can do it too" just as easily as being born into never ending, Bush style, wealth.

 

Well, the rich need the poor and middle class as it is their labor that creates the wealth for the rich. And what better carrot to keep them labouring than to tell them that they TOO can be rich as long as they become more and more productive. And of course through luck and/or being born intellectually advantaged, a few of them will even succeed, allowing the rich to point to them as examples.

If you are born rich it doesn't take an inordinate amount of work to stay rich. If you are born poor it takes a lot of hard work to become rich. But the rub is that it takes more than just hard work for most.

 

All very true. Generations of the Bush family are the proof. None of them will ever have to do anything except run for office to achieve MORE power. Working to 'get ahead' is a bad joke.

Meanwhile, the corporation quietly (and not so quietly) takes over the world.

 

I think you're reading what you expect, not what's on the page.

 

The results are the same either way.

 

And always have a good explanation, because self-esteem is more important than self-betterment.

 

If everybody gets rich by inheritance or by marriage, where did the money come from in the first place? Somebody had to make the money later inherited or married.

More excuse making.

 

Please re-read. What it says is that profitable action must be preceded by profitable thought.