Robert T Kiyosaki is the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad and The Cash Flow Quadrant is a best seller around the world. His
work has been translated into various languages, and became an
important guide for people who want to become entrepreneurs and
investors.
"A
lot of people struggling with financial difficulties, which actually
caused them many years of school but not learn anything about the money. The
result, people work to earn money, and never learned how to have money
work for them, "Robert said in the book Rich Dad Poor Dad.
Robert is fourth-generation Japanese American, born in raised in Hawaii. He came from a famous educator. His father was a head of education for the state of Hawaii. After
high school, Robert continued his education at New York and after
graduating, he joined the U.S. Marine Corp and went to Vietnam as an
officer and helicopter pilot who was armed. Upon his return from the war, Robert's business career began. In
1977 he founded a company that manufactures and velcro wallet nylon
surfer of the first on the market, and developed into a business that
generates millions of dollars.
In
1985 he founded an international education company that operates in
seven countries, teaching business and investing to tens of thousands of
people.
At the age of 47 years Robert doing something he loves most, invest. Robert is a real estate business and develop small enterprises. But his true passion is teaching. He is recognized as a great speaker on financial education and economic trends. His work has changed and inspired millions of people around the world.
Rober very clear message, "take responsibility for your finances or just accept the fate of your life. You become the master of money or a slave. Select up to you. "
Again
and again, in speeches and in his book, Robert was always taught that
we do not work for money, but try to have money work for us. His
book Rich Dad Poor Dad and The Cashflow Quadrant vigorously and in a
way that is easy to understand, he teaches a variety of tips that we
become rich, in terms of money working for us, not us working for money.
Casflow Quadrant
Robert
is best known category of life is to divide people based on their
sources of income into the fourth quadrant, the quadrant IE (employee /
employee), Quadrant II S (Self Employed / freelancer), Quadrant III B
(business owner / business owner), and quadrant IV I (Investor /
investor).
Robert said, most of us have the potential to earn from all four quadrants. Example the case of a doctor who works in a hospital with the post of director, has a pediatric clinic, and a plantation. As
director of the hospital, the doctor is in quadrant I (E), but as an
expert on childhood diseases, it acts as a self employed (S). It also has plantation business, which means that a business owner (B). It may be that the doctor was also invested in real estate or other means into ketagori quadrant IV.
Now the doctor is a man who had lived a full life because of the quadrants I-IV.
Rich dad Messages
So in fact we were teaching four quadrants, to choose one or it could be everything. Robert E quadrant is considered as the poorest, and most investors become wealthy.
In
his famous book that Robert describes himself as an employee who was
born of a family who wanted Robert to be studied diligently worked at a
company or government and get a good salary and a number of benefits and
pensions. While he knew a very close friend and his father a wealthy businessman and philanthropist.
Rich Dad (Rich Dad) that attracted the attention of Robert, until he could learn how to get rich in an intelligent way. In the description, the father was a wealthy investor who taught Robert how to make money work for robert.
Robert finally really managed to become rich by being an investor.
Ricd
books Dad and The Cashflow Quadrant promises the reader that to be
rich, a person must be moved from the left quadrant of E and S be a B or
I.
A worker is a person who is dependent on the company. Her life seemed good, but very risky indeed. An S can work alone, the problem is it will depend on his expertise.
For example a doctor go to practice. He worked day and night to serve patients because many patients in the region. He is very famous throughout the city. The problem is when he is on holiday he could not get anything.
Meanwhile,
if we live in the right quadrant, both as a business owner and
investor, he could leave office with the bad because the system runs its
own business.
An E work, an S have their own jobs, a B having systems and people who work, and one I make the money work for him.
In
a development of the country the number of people living in quadrants
I-IV the amount should be balanced so that all people can live, whether
as workers, professionals, business owners and investors.
In
Indonesia, most people want to live in quadrant I, while in quadrants
III and IV are very few, that is why there is unemployment everywhere. Blessed are you who now lives in quadrant III (as a business owner) and IV (the investor).