The Money Flow Quadrant Summary
The Money Flow Quadrant Summary
Advantages of D and I
The advantages are tax, for most people who work on the left side of the
quadrant, there are few tax advantages. However, tax advantages abound on
the right side of the quadrant.
WHAT'S IMPORTANT
For my rich dad, this was the important thing:
1) Have plenty of time to raise your children.
2) Have money to donate to charities and projects that he supported.
3) Offer jobs and provide financial stability to the community.
4) Have time and money to take care of your health.
5) Have the opportunity to travel with your family around the world.
CHANGE OF QUADrant
Changing quadrants often involves a change in the essence of who you are,
how you think and how you look at the world. Change is easier for some
people than others, simply because some welcome change and others fight
against it.
LEADERSHIP
It is the ability to bring out the best in each person. To have money and
success in business you need training in technical skills such as reading
financial statements, marketing, sales, accounting, administration, production
and negotiation, as well as learning to work with and lead people. This is the
most difficult.
DEFINITION OF WEALTH
It is the number of days that one can live without physically working or without
someone else in the family working physically, being able to maintain the
standard of living.
What matters is not how much money you earn, but how much you keep and
how long that money worked for you.
INVESTMENT STRATEGY
Warren Buffet is saying that a concentrated portfolio or focus on a few
investments, rather than a diversified one, is a better strategy. To their way of
thinking, concentration rather than diversification requires one to be smarter,
with more agile ideas and actions. The true investor also welcomes volatility.
D EXAM:
Can you leave your business for a year or more to come back and find it more
profitable and running better than when you left it? Yeah ….. NOT….. If the
answer is yes, you really are an entrepreneur.
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE
It's not so much how much money you get, but how much money you keep,
how hard that money works for you, and for how many generations you keep
it.
The employee always earns his money (earned income) in the E quadrant,
making the process a repetitive cycle. The rich man makes his money in
quadrant I with his investments.
RECOMMENDED PROCESS:
Going from A to D and then to I, it is recommended to read the book: The
Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley.
The difficult part about building a company from scratch is that you have two
big variables: The system and the people who build the system. The chances
of failure increase if there are cracks in people and in the system. Sometimes
it is difficult to know where the problem is, whether the person or the system
is failing.
If you want to read a great book about starting your own business system, get
the book E-mith The E Myth by Michael Gerber. This book is unique for those
who want to learn how to develop their own systems.
Investors reject many projects because the people creating them have little or
no experience in creating and managing business systems. Just because you
can sing doesn't mean you understand the marketing system, or the finance
and accounting system, the sales system, the hiring and firing system, the
legal system, and the many other systems that are necessary to keep a
company afloat. company and lead it to success.
PHRASE: Money should not be seen with your eyes but with your mind. Most
people invest 95% with their eyes and 5% with their mind. They often buy
emotionally and not rationally and that is why 9 out of 10 investors do not
make money if they act this way.
DERIVATIVE
A simple definition of “derivative” is something that comes from something
else, an example of a derivative is orange juice. Orange juice is derived from
an orange. Taxes or mortgages are derivatives, because they derive from the
land. Your banker wouldn't call a mortgage derivative, he would say it's
secured by land different words same meaning.
Cash flow of a poor person, or of a young person still living at home with their
parents:
Cash flow pattern of a middle class person:
And that's how your savings and checkbook get into the bank's balance
sheet.
NOTE : The more people you are in debt to, the poorer you are. It said rich
dad. And the more people owe you, the richer you are. That's the game.
Conclusion: The point is that most people's lives are determined by their
opinions, rather than by facts. For a person's life to change, they first need to
change their opinions and then start seeing the facts.
And on the balance sheet the liabilities are: Mortgage, car loan debt, credit
card debt, consumer debt, college loan debt.
THE MODELS
An E works for a system
An A is the system itself
A D creates, owns and controls a system
An I invests in the system
WAY OF BEING
You must strengthen your thinking (BE) so that you can take the actions (DO)
that will allow you to be financially free (HAVE).
BE – DO – HAVE
Words are the most powerful tools available to human beings. What a person
says and thinks becomes reality.
LOSERS DO THE SAME THING
1) People who maintain marriages where there is no more love
2) People who stay in jobs with no future
3) People who hold on to old clothes and things they will never use
4) People who stay in cities where they have no future
5) People who maintain friendships with people who pull them back.
6) Security instead of freedom
7) Avoiding risk rather than learning to manage risk
8) Play it safe and don't play smart
9) I can't pay it, instead of How can I pay it?
10) Is it too expensive before long? Is it worth it in the long run?
11) Diversify instead of centralize
12) What will my friends think? More than What do I think?
Recommendation : One of the best books on the subject of money and risk
management is: Trading for a living, by Dr. Alexander Elder. Another: The
Materialist Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner, this book is mandatory for
those who want to be in the D, I quadrant.
Other books: The Crest of the Wave by Robert Pretcher, and The Great
Expansion Coming by Harry Dent. Unlimited Wealth by Paul Zane Pilzer. The
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
DEBT : Good debt is the debt that someone else pays for you, and bad debt
is the debt that you pay with your own sweat and blood. That's why he loved
rental properties. He encouraged me to buy rental properties because the
bank gives you the loan, but your tenant pays for it.
The reason there are so few wealthy men who have reached their present
position through their own efforts is that very few individuals can tolerate
disappointment. Instead of learning to deal with it, they spend their lives
avoiding it.
THE KEY
The key to getting rich is the ability to convert earned income into passive or
portfolio income as quickly as possible. He said taxes on earned income are
the highest. The least taxed income is passive income. That is another reason
why one prefers to have money working hard for oneself. The government
taxes more money on the money you work hard for than on the money you
put to work hard for yourself. That is why the key to financial freedom and
great wealth lies in the person's ability or aptitude to transform earned income
into passive and/or portfolio income.