Rich or poor, which category do you fit in?
Most people want to be rich, but most of them are poor, why?
There must be some differences between rich people and poor people. If you study carefully, you will find out why rich and successful people are able to produce amazing results in their life, and why some people are living in poverty.
To be rich and successful, you don’t need to be lucky, extremely hard working or you need to have a college diploma or a university degree.
What you need, is the right mindset and the right mindset will form the right habit. As a result, the right habit will lead you toward the financial abundance kind of lifestyle that you always desire.
So here are the 7 main differences between rich and poor people…
1. Rich people believe that they create their lives while poor people believe that life happens to them. Can you see why rich and successful people are able to create amazing results in their life right now?
It is simply because they are in control of their lives. They believe that they are the ones who is responsible for their lives, they are the ones who is creating their future, not the economy or the knowledge or luck.
On the other hand, poor people will always give excuses and blame on the circumstances. When they failed in their business, they will blame the economy, their boss, their family or anything that did not go according to their plan.
Whenever you believe that life happens to you, you will lose the power to change and the power to control your future. You must believe that you’re the one who is creating your future, not other people or events.
2. Rich people play the money game to win but poor people play the money game just not to lose money. This is a big mindset difference.
Have you ever seen people invest in the stock market? Some people are so afraid that they will lose their money and they form a mindset that blocks their creativity. They formed the mindset of ‘investing not to lose the money’.
However, rich and successful people know exactly how they need to think in order to win the game of money. They will think and act from the view of playing the game to win. Unlike poor people, they will never invest just not to lose the money.
3. Rich people think and focus on opportunities while poor people focus on obstacles. When you face with problems, what are you focus on?
Are you focus on the problems, thinking how bad the situation is going to be? Or are you focusing on the solution and thinking about how you can solve or even turn the situation into opportunity?
Think about this carefully. No matter who you are, you will definitely face with all kinds of choices in your life. And when you need to decide to move on, try to notice on you thinking, what do you focus on, the solution, or the problem?
4. Rich people dare to dream big, poor people think small. When I tell my parents that I want to make a million dollar, they will tell me, “Why do you need so much money? You can live a very good lifestyle if you got a job that has a good pay. You don’t need to be a millionaire.”
I don’t know about you, but this statement happens to me all the time. And I definitely believe that poor people will tend to think small while rich people always think big.
To poor people, they will think that rich people are greedy because they always think big. Is it true that you are being greedy if you think big? I don’t know if I buy this, but to me, I’ll think of it as a waste if you’re not using the resources available (your thinking) to you at full.
Don’t you owe it to everyone around you to create a better life for them? Don’t you want your family to live good? So think big and create the abundance lifestyle for these people right now.
5. Rich people are committed to their dreams, poor people are just dreaming about their dreams. Yes, this is an obvious one.
If you’re not committed to be rich, you can never be rich. How many times have you heard people say that they want to be rich, but they never do anything about it?
This is the mentality of poor people. They will just think about how good it is going to be if they are rich, but they will never do anything about their dreams. They know that they cannot afford a luxury car if they have a low pay job. The thing is, they never do anything to change it.
On the contrary, rich and successful people are committed toward their dreams. They will do whatever it takes, in the boundary or moral and ethics of course, to achieve their dreams.
6. Rich people associate with rich and successful people. Poor people will associate with poor people. Do you have any rich friends? Or all of your friends are poor?
I’m not suggesting that you need to stop making friends with poor people, what I’m suggesting it, try to get to know more about rich people. The more you mix with them, the more you will think like them. And if you think like them, you will start to create amazing results just like them.
If most of your friends are poor and their working salary all are below, $2,000, you will be having the same range of salary most of the time. However, if you associate with rich people who are making $2,000 in just a day, you will start to see the possibility of what you can accomplish in your life.
And this will change your thinking of what you can achieve in your life. $2,000 will become a small amount for you once you changed your mindset about money.
7. Rich people good learners while poor people think that they have learned everything in the world. One of the fastest ways to be financially abundance is to learn directly from people who have already achieved this status.
And if you’re not willing to learn, you will never be able to be successful. If you want to get the best pay, you must be the best. And the only way you can be the best is to learn from the best and learn to be the best.
You now know what are the 7 main differences between rich and poor people. Do what rich people do and try to avoid the adopting the mindset and habits of the poor.
This will guarantee you a financial abundance lifestyle.
Poor people are very close-minded; this, I have noticed. They are also easily intimidated and complacent.
so i have been working hard trying to be rich. so i figured ill start wondering the freeways and look for money. all these years of hard work, trials and errors i did not give up. i stayed focused and positive. i have encountered many obstacles even snakes, raccoons, lizards, bums, serial killers and rapist. it didn’t stop me! and guess what?! i finally found a bag full on money. so all i have to say, IM RICH!!!! BIATCH!!! HONKKK!! HONK!!!!
What stuck out the most… There are some sick people in other countries…. Militia? Killing families… It doesnt have to be that way. Life isnt about pain and controlling others with death wierdo.
Bill Gates, Sam Walton…. Monopoly folks. To the studying 50hours for one test person… Wow your inspiring! Fits right into doing what your passionate about. Eat, breathe, sleep it and you will become it. I do hope you get out and play as hard as you work so life doesnt pass you by. Rich is a job or rather a game as one poster said. Mix passion, opportunity, faith, some rich relatives and friends to deliver opportunities; stir with ice, garnish with luck and enjoy. And dont be blamming porr parents.
This sounds like a load of horse*#!% if you ask me.
You can’t do any of this and be guaranteed success in it.
Those rich people are there for one of two reasons. Mommy and daddy forgot to remove the silver spoon up their ***es.
The other is rather simple, becoming rich by accident and being lucky enough to know how to patent your idea at that moment and be able to manage your finances.
When mommy and daddy helped you it requires no skill or luck, you had 99% chance of being helped into luck.
In the other instance it requires great skill in firstly your idea and then you should have some legal-know-how to be sure you wont be ripped off like in the Zuckerberg-twin debacle.
Ever gave a thought about why one would want to become rich at all. Do rich people take more money with them upon death? Are poor people always sad and gloomy and the rich always glad and jolly?
Perhaps, yes if you blindly follow the corporate media: that is for the rich, of the rich, by the rich.
Come on, get out of that ghetto mindset: the rich are good, hardworking, courageous and blah blah; the poor lazy and work-shirkers. Leave back that blinkered approach towards life. Despite what the films and school books might depict, the poor are often happier than the rich. As goes the Urdu couplet:
“So jaataa hai footpath par akhbaar bichhaa kar
Mazdoor kabhi neend ki goli nahin khaataa.”
“He would sleep on the footpath over a spread out newspaper.
The manual laborer never takes sleep-inducing pills.
Respected sir,
i am a poor family. My parents old no work. My brother and sister small. So please help me sir give me one house house price $20000. Please give me one home. I thanks all life and all life your servent sir. Munawar Sultana account no.. 01121584= branch no. 0415 United Bank Limited Imamiya Colony Lahore PAKISTAN
i think we have to consider the difference between educated and uneducated rather than writing it as rich and poor ……….i can mingle with poor literates but …..i cant mingle with rich illiterates ………spending money uselessly is more with rich illiterates …….
good one
there are few bad comments that i have read.. but i still stand that what have been written there are wonderful and i have learnt something today..i realised that i have been thinking like poor people.. i will change myself to think like rich people in order to be someone successful in the future.. thx for the simple basic knowledge..i learned a lot..
I think that we should study and the people who are known as “poor” and dont have enough money should study because that is the only way to move on and live their own ways cause everyone has a right to live and learn…
People who study when they were young are today at where they wanted to be!
People who didnt study when they were young arent where they dreamed of being or wished to be!
So we should study if we want our dreams to come true and if we want our name and our parents name on the top so that the world would remeber us by a good personality after our deaths!
PEOPLE ” never say that you guys dont wanna learn cause there isnt any other way to be rich!
wish you luck for your studies!
i do deeply agree with it ,but it still need a good chance to achive your goal,not every one could get such a opptunite,most if people did have the ability to complate it ,but the opptunite
I am poor because I have social anxiety disorder and cannot get a job, I have only a G.E.D and no friends, my family has abandon me all except to provide shelter, and the government provides food to keep me alive, alive but without life in me. What opportunities do I have? I search every day, I try to stay positive and open, but no matter what I do I can not get over my anxiety. I wish I would just die soon, there is no future for me.
It is the worst analysis regarding rich and poor I’ve ever read! You are not gonna be millionaire with these type of thoughts. Yes, the idea you share are true while looking the rich people but they will not simply touch the readers heart. Readers will feel like they have read this somewhere before. So don’t write articles just to show your skills or to earn money. Write only if your heart inspire you to write on any topic. The will definitely be the touchy one and will be original. Thnx.
“If most of your friends are poor and their working salary all are below, $2,000″
I wish I could make that amount per month. let alone per week. If I had 2k per month. I’d be happy as any rich man would be. I consider anyone making around 1k a week to be wealthy already. How much do you need to be considered wealthy?
Someone once said, Wealth is not measured by the size of your wallet, but by the size of your family.
I make on avrg $200 per week & barely get by on my bills. And as long as I can pay those bills, I’m satisfied. Sure I’d like to have enough to buy a new car & make 200.00 monthly payments. But I can’t. I bought a car for 1300.00 & it’s still going strong after 4 years. I don’t make any payments on it. The bank don’t own the car, I do. It’s a crappy car. But it’s mine.
I have a large loving family. We are all poor, but are happy w/ our day to day lives.
Our struggles with poverty is what binds us & makes us strong, respectful of one another & combines our interests.
Truth is, I pray for the economic collapse in this country. & If your poor as I am, I’m sure you feel the same way. We’ve got nothing to lose.
I’m one step away from heading to the bread line.
Is it the responsibility of the rich to support the poor? Does the man who works hard for his money aught to give some up to the guy who don’t work at all? Obviously not. That’s not fair. But if that doesn’t happen on a large scale & soon. I think we’ll all be heading to the bread lines.
Think of it like a pyramid w/ the poor at the very bottom. When a structures base collapses, the rest of that structure will soon follow. Everyone will be effected. So even it’s not fair for the rich to support the poor. If they don’t, they may end up poor themselves.
There is a tremendous inequality in this country & the world. One phrase has stuck in my head for years, since I’ve seen the movie “Patton” “Is it fair that the guy who shovels shit all day long earns less than the suit & tie guy in his office?” Not those exact words, but the point is the same. The guy who’s literally shovels shit all day, will earn 100.00 for the day, If he’s lucky. Would your everyday office worker do the same? They’d refuse to touch it, even for double or triple that amount.
Wealth in this country aught to be distributed evenly. Alright, so call me a communist. If that’s whats best for the people of this country. So be it. Communism it will be. Communism is alot better than you think it is. our system of democracy & capitalism only favors the top percent of they pyramid. Sure I can vote for who I want as the leader of this country, but that leader & every leader before & after are politicians. Politicians are tainted & corrupted. Politicians do not look to favor the poor. They look to favor the top percent of the pyramid. The people who give the leaders power, who pay for their campaigns. The decisions our leaders make are implanted by the wealthy. Decisions that benefit the wealthy & from time to time throw the poor a few bread crumbs to keep us quiet & docile.
No matter what mind set your in, A go-getter or a do-nothing individual. The odds of you overcoming poverty are very slim, & get slimmer each year w/ more & more people being added to our overall global population. In 10 years from now. There will be so much poor. You can’t help but think a revolution is underway. Our government fails us. Distribution of wealth doesn’t exist. But needs to.
I want someone to lead this country who’s not a politician. I would vote 100x for the common man pulled from the streets, rather than for 1 educated politician. Because I know the poor man will make choices that will benefit his kind. The majority.
If our current leaders, the rich mind–set wealthy go getters are what we want to become. Then why are those same people making choices that have the poor remaining poor? Where’s the mind-set at now?
You give 7 points in the difference between the rich & poor. I’ve got 2 points of my own to make.
1. People are people, rich or poor, we’re all brothers & sisters, cousins & neighbors, friends & enemies. We all have a common interest. To live a good life.
2. Rich will remain rich & the poor will remain poor, and an ever growing resentment & hatred toward each other will grow unless we change our leaders, our laws & our government, in order to achieved the good life for everyone.
I dont agree in #6. It’s not easy mixing with super rich people since rich people don’t really want to be friends with poor people they are not interested in poor but in rich ir richer than the, it’s not like I’m going to start hanging out with rich people tomorrow.
I have poor friends and rich friends as well and a very poor family that became very rich by setting their own businesses and focusing on their goals and they had NOTHING but poor people and poor friends around them.
#6 is total BS my family was very poor and became rich not because of mixing with rich people but because they set their goals right. Hanging out with rich people does not make you richer it can on the other hand make you act rich and stupid when your not.
Rich people always clever than Poor people even they didn’t have the degree from university. Pich people always the one who create their future. ^^