Robert Kiyosaki is a well-known author and speaker, best known for his book, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" many people site this book as one of their main reasons for making the decision to take control of their finances and finally become successful.
In "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", Kiyosaki describes his experience of growing up and the education and advice he received from his "rich dad", an uneducated but wealthy entrepreneur and his "poor dad", his actual father, who earned an average, middle-class income and stressed getting an education and finding a traditional job to make money.
His "rich dad" showed Robert how to invest his money and think outside the box so that he would not be trapped in the traditional 9-5 job. The book emphasises the value of financial education and highlights the differing opinions and approaches to money, life and work that he learned from his two dads and the way it influenced his life.
Another important point that Kiyosaki makes in his book is that owning your own business is one of the only viable and effective ways to obtain true financial security, especially during the current economic recession. With the unemployment rates increasing everyday, owning a home business has never been more enticing.
His net worth is in the millions.
Got Any Ideas From This?
Do you have an interesting story about your life? Are there lessons to be learned along the line somewhere? Then write about it, make it interesting and sell it.
Now they are just some of the thousands of success stories and their accomplishments. I am quite sure you can think of many others. Do some research online into some other successful people and find out how they became so successful.
Take a look at the following list of the richest people in the world and their net worth as of 2014. If any of these interest you, just do some research on them and their businesses. Maybe a couple of ideas will jump out at you. The figures you see on the following list are in billions.
Carlos Slim Helu & family $73
Bill Gates $67
Amancio Ortega $57
Warren Buffett $53.5
Larry Ellison $43
Charles Koch $34
David Koch $34
Li Ka-shing $31
Liliane Bettencourt $30
Bernard Arnault $29
Christy Walton & family $28.2
Stefan Persson $28
Michael Bloomberg $27
Jim Walton $26.7
Sheldon Adelson $26.5
Alice Walton $26.3 S.
Robson Walton $26.1
Karl Albrecht $26
Jeff Bezos $25.2
Larry Page $23
Sergey Brin $22.8
Mukesh Ambani $21.5
Michele Ferrero & family $20.4
Lee Shau Kee $20.3
David Thomson & Family $20.3
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $20
Carl Icahn $20
Thomas & Raymond Kwok $20
Dieter Schwarz $19.5
George Soros $19.2
Theo Albrecht Jr. $18.9
Alberto Bailleres $18.2
Jorge Paulo Lemann $17.8
Alisher Usmanov $17.6
Iris Fontbona & family $17.4
Forrest Mars Jr. $17
Jacqueline Mars $17
John Mars $17
Georgina Rinehart $17
German Larrea Mota Velasco $16.7
Mikhail Fridman $16.5
Lakshmi Mittal $16.5
Aliko Dangote $16.1
Len Blavatnik $16
Cheng Yu-tung $16
Joseph Safra $15.9
Rinat Akhmetov $15.4
Leonid Mikhelson $15.4
Leonardo Del Vecchio $15.3
Michael Dell $15.3
Steve Ballmer $15.2
Viktor Vekselberg $15.1
Paul Allen $15
Francois Pinault $15
Vagit Alekperov $14.8
Phil Knight $14.4
Andrey Melnichenko $14.4
Dhanin Chearavanont $14.3
Susanne Klatten $14.3
Vladimir Potanin $14.3
Michael Otto $14.2
Vladimir Lisin $14.1
Gennady Timchenko $14.1
Luis Carlos Sarmiento $13.9
Mohammed Al Amoudi $13.5
Tadashi Yanai $13.3
Mark Zuckerberg $13.3
Henry Sy $13.2
Donald Bren $13
Serg Dassault $13
Lee Kun-Hee $13
Mikhail Prokhorov $13
Alexey Mordashov $12.8
Antonio Ermirio De Moraes $12.7
Abigail Johnson $12.7
Ray Dalio $12.5
Robert Kuok $12.5
Miuccia Prada $12.4
Ronald Perelman $12.2
Anne Cox Chambers $12
Stefan Quandt $11.9
Ananda Kirshnan $11.7
Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila $11.7
James Simons $11.7
Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi $11.7
Zong Qinghou $11.6
Dirce Navarro De Camargo $11.5
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor $11.4
Harold Hamm $11.3
Rupert Murdoch & Family $11.2
John Paulson $11.2
Azim Premji $11.2
Ernesto Bertarelli $11
Okay we will stop there, and we haven't even gotten to the $10 billion mark yet! If you want to see the remainder of this list check it out on Forbes.com
Now you should do some research and find out how they got to become so wealthy. Maybe you have a similar trait or skill or talent, or at the very least, you might find that you have an interest in the same industry. It is when you start researching and reading about the incredibly wealthy is when the ideas start to flow. This is getting you into the "wealth conscious" awareness we looked at in chapter 3.
Now you can model yourself on some of those success stories so that you too can enjoy a similar success.
Ask yourself this: Have you got a similar skill?
Are you interested in what they do?
Can you develop the skill?
Can you outsource the skill?
There are no limits to the level of success you can attain. It starts with the decision, then the plan and then the action.
Remember:
You can do what they have done. It is just a matter of applying your skill or developing the necessary skill and discipline in order to emulate their success.
It's as simple as taking the required action toward the success, being consistent and having the determination and discipline to follow through on required actions.
The level of success you are going to reach in the future will depend on what actions you decide to take today.
Tony Robbins once said:
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
Therefore…
Do the research, make the decision, set your goals, follow your plan and take action.
Points to Remember
Study some of the most successful people in the world and learn how they achieved their level of success.
Ask yourself what skills or talents you have right now, and what skills you can develop further that will help you go on to achieve major success.
Write down any ideas you get from studying the most successful people and find out ways that you can create similar success.
Up Next…
In the next chapter we are looking at some business ideas for your consideration. We take a look at the commercial side i.e. servicing businesses and companies and the residential side i.e. servicing the consumer, the general public…
Up Next…
In the next chapter we are taking a look at how to make money online, as in, making money on the Internet. With over 80 ways to make a buck online that can also be developed into full business services. In some cases the pay checks may not be as big as servicing the offline businesses or the general public but with these ideas there can at times be less effort required to carry out the task…
Up Next…
After just discussing business ideas, hopefully you will have a better idea on what direction you want to take, but for now we need to go back to the mindset in creating success and wealth. In the next chapter we take a look at the universal law of attraction and how this amazing energetic force operates…