Investment means taking risk. No matter how meagre the money one has in the bank they can always invest it on something. A truly rich man is someone whose money brings more money to him. Wealthy people don’t sweat all day long in factories just to get paid at the end of the month. To want to be rich means looking for capital, if you are not born with a silver spoon, and invest it. Start small and be consistent. Here are some things I have found common among the rich.
Opportunity in Adversity
Rich men are true gold diggers. They try to see the business side of all human problems. The same way the heat produced by a volcano eruption can be used for power generation. When a company keeps disappointing its customers, they are indirectly creating the market for another company to prosper. This technique has been one of the major tools western companies have used to dominate the world. Other parts of the world just realized this. They are trying to obey this rule but they are not getting it right.
Little Bit of Madness
Successful tycoons are a little bit mad. They are mad about something. Usually they are not the usual type of nice people that girls find attractive. Many of them discovered their purpose and went for them. This set of people does not follow the conventional way of life. In fact, the conventional way of life is like a road and everybody is on that road (what seems right). There is another road that the normal “office worker” and of course every one of us think is for the crazy people. But in fact that’s the path that leads to the top. All known geniuses we know today took that road. They were just different.
Take Careful Decision
When it comes to business, critical decision requires critical thinking. One has to learn how to learn fast and act fast. There are people who are good at analysing market data. They are everywhere. That’s what college teaches someone, however, very few persons are born with the rare gift of taking a good decision at the right time. It’s all about timing. The art of good decision-making is in everyone (geniuses are naturally good at it) but we can learn it.
Act Fast
Procrastination is a business killer disease. When it comes to business, idea without good timing spoils everything. Politics is one case in point. In politics, good timing wins election. Life is dynamic and putting off a good idea until tomorrow maybe a big mistake. If it was not a mistake then luck was involved and luck rarely comes round when we expect it.
We can learn from the masters who had nothing and came up fast with these rules. Sir Richard Branson did it. He sold records out of his car when in fact people with white-collar jobs thought the man had gone mad. He was hopeless in their eyes. Bill Gate followed the same part and left school to follow his dream (right timing). There are millions of stories like that.
