POOR |
RICH |
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Money controls them (slave to money) |
They control the money (master of money) |
Earned income
(from labor) |
Passive & portfolio income
(from one time past activity & investments) |
Work for others |
Work with others |
Play not to lose |
Play to win |
|
Look for security |
Look for challenge |
Have doubts |
Have faith |
|
Pessimist |
Optimist |
Don't take responsibilities |
Take responsibility |
The pattern of get up – go to work – pay bills |
Free of patterns |
Emotions do the thinking |
Mind does the thinking |
Run by fear and ego |
Run by courage and vision |
Reactor |
Actor/Creator |
Financially illiterate |
Financially literate |
Own liabilities |
Own assets |
Not balanced |
Balanced |
Focus on avoiding failure |
Focus on achieving success |
Focus on what's bad or wrong |
Focus on what's good or right |
Focus on product/service |
Focus on developing management skills |
Put their eggs in too many baskets or only one |
Put their eggs in a few baskets |
Criticize |
Analyze |
Want others to change |
Open to change |
Make choices influenced by others |
Have power to choose |
Take advices from unsuccessful people |
Don't take advices from the unsuccessful |
Can not get control of themselves |
Have self-discipline |
Defeated by failures |
Inspired by failures |
Buy luxuries first |
Buy luxuries last |
Don't choose their friends |
Choose their friends carefully |
Talk and Talk |
Listen and Do |
Vocabulary of the poor includes the words such as:
luck, coincidence, impossible |
Vocabulary of the rich have no words such as:
luck, coincidence, impossible |
“I'll believe it when I see it” |
“I'll see it when I believe it” |
“Receive and then give” |
“Give and you shall receive” |
“It takes money to make money” |
“It takes idea to make money” |
“I can't afford it” |
“How can I afford it?” |
“Success is a matter of luck” |
“Luck can be influenced by me” |