"If You Want to Get Rich, Stop Thinking Like a Poor Person"
By The Rich Dad Channel
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Government printing money enriches the rich.**: When governments print money, it devalues the currency, causing assets like real estate and gold to increase in price. This benefits those who own these assets, making the rich richer, while the poor and middle class are negatively impacted by inflation. [00:41], [01:44] - **Gresham's Law: Bad money drives out good.**: According to Gresham's Law, when a cheaper, devalued currency (bad money) enters a system, people hoard or spend the more valuable currency (good money). This is why people prefer real money like silver over paper currency when inflation rises. [00:51], [01:08] - **Poor think cheap, rich think value.**: Poor people often seek inexpensive items, believing they are being smart with their money. In contrast, the rich understand the long-term value and invest in assets that appreciate, even if the initial cost is higher. [01:30], [05:19] - **Wear your assets: Gold watches as an example.**: Instead of buying inexpensive items, the wealthy may purchase assets like a gold Rolex. This is because the gold itself can increase in value over time as governments print more money, essentially allowing them to wear their appreciating asset. [00:26], [04:36] - **Debt is used by the rich to buy assets.**: Smart individuals leverage debt, which is essentially fake money, to acquire real assets like property. While the debt itself may lose value due to inflation, the asset purchased with it increases in value, leading to wealth accumulation. [02:39], [02:53]
Topics Covered
- Government printing money makes the rich richer.
- Rich people buy assets, poor people buy liabilities.
- Wear your assets, don't buy depreciating liabilities.
- Poor people think cheap means smart.
- Are you thinking like a rich person or a school teacher?
Full Transcript
I want to talk to you about how to think
richer it's really tough to get rich if
you think like a poor person and we all
know poor people they're all over the
place so I'm going just show you
something here this here is a gold Rolex
Daytona the younger people have no idea
what Daytona means but this was Paul
Newman's watch and all this stuff and I
own four daytonas they go oh what a
waste of money that's how a poor person
thinks why do I buy a $50,000 watch
let's say it is and gold rings and all
this well the reason is because the
national debt of America is through the
freaking roof we're going bankrupt the
way America with our politicians the way
they solve their problems is they print
money one thing wrong with printing
money the rich get richer and the poor
middle class get poorer ression Lawes
when bad money enters a system good
money goes into hiding now here's a 50
cent piece Kennedy half dollar 1964 this
is from my friend Jim Clark Republic
Monetary Exchange here in Phoenix
Arizona I buy a lot of golden real
golden silver from him so in bad money
enters a system which is the bad money
this or this the agressions law says
when bad money enters a system good
money goes into hiding this is bad money
this is real money so what happens is
when I show this to most people most
people say which one I said which one do
you want the $10 or the 50 cent piece
the average person young or old jumps
for this but this is bad money the smart
want real money and the reason this
happens is every time the government
prints money which started in 1971 when
Nixon took the dollar off the gold
standard every time you print money the
rich get richer let me say it again when
you print money government's print money
which are printing all over the world
today the rich are getting richer
because assets go up in value what else
goes up in price are food eggs and stuff
like this so the rich get richer because
they have real money but the poor in
middle class get hammered because
inflation's killing them see look at
America today there have an election
coming up for the president and what's
happening is inflation is killing people
right now this is getting takes more and
more of these to buy one of these here
so you understand Gram's law when bad
money enters a system this is bad money
this goes into hiding so Republic
monetary exchange here in Phoenix this
isn't hiding this 50 cent piece is worth
a lot more than this so we're talking
about why do I buy assets why do I buy
real estate because when I use debt debt
is this fake money here to buy a real a
house this goes down in value but the
house goes up in value so that's why the
smart people know how to use debt to get
richer cuz they use debt to buy real
assets and this gets worth less and less
and less and less us it's Gran's law
when bad money enters the system good
money goes into hiy when bad money
enters the system the rich buy more
assets like real estate land things like
this so they get richer and the poor in
middle class get poor cuz inflation
kills as Gran's law has been around for
thousands of years so I hold this up
here 1964 real silver and this I say
which would you rather have this 50 cent
piece or the $10 the rich will take this
poor midle class will take this let me
explain this when you print money the
price of assets go up like my apartment
houses go up the price of oil goes up
and things like this so what happens is
you print money the price of oil goes up
but so do the cost of a chicken because
a chicken takes gas to get it to the
supermarket so you go to the supermarket
why is this chicken $10 today whatever
it is I don't pay attention to that
stuff but we're printing so much money
today this here this solid gold watch
I've been buying gold since it was $50
an ounce that's why I own gold mines I
don't like to fool around with too much
I have real goal I can take it I can
feel it it's in a private fault hidden
in some Mountain not too far from here
but the reason why I buy this gold watch
let's say it cost
$50,000 5 years from now what will this
gold watch be
worth see if gold today is let's say
$3,000 and the prediction is gold is
going to go to 50 $15,000 so that's a
ftim so the reason I buy a gold watch I
can buy a cheap ass Swatch watch or a
timx or whatever it is for 50 bucks I
some of those too by buying a gold Rolex
I'm not saying do it I'm just telling
you how I think and how poor people
think oh I'm going to get myself a cheap
ass Apple watch no right Lefty Apple
person would buy a solid gold Apple
watch you know cuz it doesn't fit their
genre but when I buy this thing here I
get to wear my asset on my wrist cuz it
gets more valuable the more government
is up the more they print money
the more valuable is not the watch it's
the gold in the watch so I'm just saying
to you that is how I think and I was
trained to think that way but a poor
person they want to buy something that's
Nic looking but inexpensive that's why
they're poor you know some people buy
like I see women with these very
expensive handbags
I hate to tell you this the only place
that's going to be good for is a
Salvation Army thrift store but they
have a some Gucci bag or something or
they got Gucci shoes or whatever they
have but there's nothing wrong with
wearing your assets on your wrist or
gold earrings because it's not the
earring it's the gold so if you can
understand that the reason poor people
are poor is they think if they get
something for cheap they're smart but
they're really poor so ladies and
Gentlemen people talk about mindfulness
now Buddhism is mindfulness what are you
saying to yourself oh I can get by
living this or I can eat cheap food or I
can do this remember this this is the
rule when the government prints money
assess go price up in price the rich get
richer but the poor get poorer so when
you print money the price of gasoline
goes up I get richer cuz I own oil wells
the poor in middle class get poorer cuz
they're putting gas in the car it's also
taking gas to get that chicken and
toilet paper to the supermarket so
that's what's going on in America today
and the biggest problem as you know is
that most of our leaders a lot of them
are School teachers like tampon Tim
Walls who ran with CA he's a college
professor or something like that the
governor don't hang out with poor people
it's a waste of your time My Poor Dad
smart guy and all that pours a church
mouse he wanted everything that was
inexpensive rather than something that
was valuable not the price but what is
the long-term value of what you're
buying today I'm taking delivery on a
new car not that I need a new car but
it's a very rare car so I get to drive
around a very rare car that only rich
people can afford oh such a waste of
money I'd rather drive around my Toyota
Prius okay that's fine you get from
point A to point B but you get richer no
that's the the problem so the problem
isn't the Toyota Prius or my new
collector C coming in problem is how you
think so ladies and gentlemen it's
called mindfulness be mindful the
question is are you thinking like a rich
person a poor person or a school teacher
so if you want to find out the top three
things that schools should have taught
you about money and three is light men
they don't teach you anything but the
top three things of school does not
teach you about money please watch the
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