POOR |
RICH |
Want to be rich |
Committed to being rich |
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Money controls them (slave to money) |
They control the money (master of money) |
Prefer to get paid based on time |
Prefer to get paid based on results |
Earned income
(from labor) |
Passive & portfolio income
(from one time past activity & investments) |
Work for others |
Work with others |
Work hard on job |
Work hard on oneself |
Play not to lose |
Play to win |
Find excuses |
Find ways |
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Look for security |
Look for challenge |
Have doubts |
Have faith |
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Pessimist |
Optimist |
Dislike going to work
No passion and enthusiasm at work
|
Love their work
Are passionate and enthusiastic about work
|
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 |
Think small |
Think big |
Run by fear and ego
Let fear
stop them |
Run by courage and vision
Act in spite of fear |
Reactor |
Actor/Creator |
Financially illiterate |
Financially literate |
Mismanage their money |
Manage their money well |
Own liabilities |
Own assets |
Not balanced |
Balanced |
Focus on avoiding failure |
Focus on achieving success |
Focus on obstacles |
Focus on opportunities |
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 |
Make choices influenced by others |
Have power to choose |
Want others to change |
Open to change |
Stopped learning after graduation |
Constantly learn, improve and grow |
Take advices from unsuccessful people |
Don't take advices from the unsuccessful |
Resent rich and successful people |
Admire other rich and successful people |
Can not get control of themselves |
Have self-discipline |
Defeated by failures
Easily give up, no perseverence
|
Inspired by failures
Cultivate perseverence, do not give up |
Buy luxuries first |
Buy luxuries last |
Don't choose their friends |
Choose their friends carefully |
Surround oneself with losers |
Surround oneself with winners |
Talk and Talk |
Listen and Do |
Think negatively about selling and
promotion |
Happy and willing to promote their stuff |
Excellent receivers |
Poor receivers |
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” |
"Life happens to me." |
"I create my life." |