7 Main Differences Between Rich And Poor People
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.
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The irony in the comments is precisely what the article describes, the haters are always making excuses, always! Blaming society and other factors for their lack of success. Get control of your own life and stop blaming others for your problems and take credit for your success or lack thereof.
It’s funny to me to see the large contrast in comments based on the income status. To go through the comments and pick out the “less fortunate” is very easy because you hate your life and everyone else’s. You’re a victim! Stop being a victim and start being accountable for your life the good and the bad, stop blaming others, it’s your life and in the end, you’re ultimately responsible for it! Society doesn’t care whether you live or die or are rich or poor! Get control of your life and make a difference, if not for you for your family and self pride!
it takes alotmore education to do whatyour implying. there is a certain uniqueness amungthe higher class as you can clearly tell by tthe huge gap in middle to upper class. it takes a certain amount of risk and responsability wich most people cant acheive. in closing it is my oppinion that your idealogy is to vague better suited for a selfhelpbook.
Can the rich get in trouble if the persecute the rich? Is it possible? Is possible a rich pretend to be poor to prove who is good or bad?
Okay, society do not care about militia? Right? Hm.. I wonder. Where I have grown myself around militia power? Hm. Society are not afraid of the militia. I support militia and it is my glory. Cops are nothing. Militia is better than cops. Because the militia kills the communists and have no mercy. That’s why I love the militia power. Because the militia has no mercy and kill of all of those who opposes the militia. Hm.. I wonder if I would see you surrounded by militia power? How would you react? What would you do? I bet you will be afraid and shake and be pale.Cops are nothing. Militia is better. Then,society can fear and talk and say, oh,he was right. Society do not care? Huh… People are crazy. Yes, they are afraid.
I hope one day the militia will one day kill the communists and great terror comes to the society. Let’s see in the future. I will not forget this great day. Let’s see and deal each other. It is a deal between you and me. Okay. So, let’s see what will you do. You will fear and run and seek to hide and death will be nigh at your door. There will be no mercy when militia comes and seize your houses and kill of all of your communists or your children and destroy and deploy your houses and see? Now, you are afraid. Be nice to others and be nice to me. Because I am supportive of the Militia power. I will be happy to see people dead when militia kill the bad people who opposes the militia. So, that the people learn they are not the voice. The Anticommunist is the Voice.Not the people. Sorry. Lol. Let’s see what happens and how will you react. I bet you will fear and run and hide and death will be seized you. So, behave and be nice.
Rich people GOOD learner!
If we good learner, could beat Yankees?
You are assuming that all people are born of equal abilities and have access to equal resources. Dumb rich people hire genius poor person to manage their wealth for them.
I know this having been born intellectually advantaged but living a life of being forced to work for wealthy people who are nowhere near my intellectual peers.
Compare Albert Einstein and Paris Hilton. Which one is rich and which one is actually better? Well Bill Gates you say! Bah, he was lucky since there is only so much room in the market and he had discovered some legal tools to manhandle his competition.
Rich people take more than what they deserve. It is their willingness to exploit the community and other individuals. It is their lack of empathy for other people who were not born the way they were. They need us to buy into their delusions so that they are allowed to take what they do.
A rich person in a world of poor people is nothing more than a King Charles I and should be treated as such.
When all people have equal access to all of societies cogs (including genetic modification, cybernetics and what ever eles), material scarcity (both real and synthetic) is ended, inheritance, and domination of others is ended, then I will believe that each individual with an IQ greater than 90 has a reasonable amount of control over their own destiny.
So stop bowing to King Charles I. Stop justifying monetary tyranny and surfdome just because you want to win the lottery and rule the world.
Finally, many of the commenters on this page are absolutely retarded. There is no chance that they will be rich and your fluff pep talk will do nothing to help them become rich. They are determined (have no real choice) to be no more rich then my Labrador’s sleeping on the floor unless they win the lottery. If they were to win the lottery, they would do nothing but degrade society with their idiotic conception of reality paying people to advocate their ideas (like giving money to the church or heritage foundation).
Shawn, you’re a fucking cretin.
wtf?!?! lmfao! its interesting how most people think just because someone has greens means they are SMARTand know life?!?! and “poor people should learn from them!?!
how do u think they became rich?
oh yh they are either celebrities or businessmen!
and trust me most of the richest businessmen had to do a lot of dirty work to get to where they are!!
so please don’t be telling other people what to do !
i believe life is what it is ! you can spend your whole life running after money and wast your whole time not living real life ! which is ( love , family , children, and being happy and thankful and clean)!! i’m not poor nor am i rich . but there isn’t something wrong with either!
RIch wanna be’s just destroy and forget the real meaning of life (but not all , …most) my dad is one !!!
This is such bullshit. Being poor has more to do with the socio-economic status in which you were born than anything else. Upward mobility is nearly non-existent in America now. Rich people are not rich because they are better thinkers or more imaginative or more positive. They are rich because they have access to opportunity. I am a millionaire and I know I got here not because I am so damn brilliant or hard working – I am here because I married into capital. Period.
A typical china boy view.
This blog is some shit. You make it seem as if poor people don’t have goals or dreams to achieve.
Sounds like more rhetoric to try to abate the class wars that are coming; who needs a billion dollars or multi-millions- if you’re ridiculously rich you keep what you need and share the rest… PERIOD, end of story.
There are not enough opportunities today for the average person to get ahead; the rich took it all; not to mention the fact that our current population statistics further hinder all the problems that lie ahead for anyone seeking to be “upwardly mobile”
@unan imus
Education is free. Go to your public library. Read online. I can’t afford to go to school for software development, but that hasn’t prevented me from devoting the last 4 years to learning it. Now I have more opportunities open to me, both for creating my own company as well as for working for higher pay.
I know a lot of poor people. I don’t know any poor people who spend every free minute they have doing something that will improve their chances of success.
Here’s the deal. Very few people really devote themselves completely to improving their chances of success. That’s an opportunity. If most people are lazy, it means you can get ahead by not being lazy. Work ethic is the great equalizer – it trumps intelligence, education, sex appeal, and money. There is no greater determinant for success.
Now I’m going back to work on my million dollar idea.
rich people enjoy more money
People born into poor environments are set up for failure. Their nutrition is poor which effects their ability to learn. They interact less with the parents because their stressed out about finances and the schools they go to are not so great. This is some bull.
If I had to use this as a resource for a paper comparing the poor and rich, all my peers would think I was stuck up my ass. Sir you are in desperate need of crawling out of your crap hole.
The title should be better ” 7 Differences between successful and unsuccessful people”.
There are miserable rich and poor people, as well as happy.
Happiness, satisfaction, peace of mind, and love to whatever and whoever is around comes from being successful in your objectives, even if your objective is to become rich, or to make a painting, or go running.
Which are your objectives in life? that is different in everyone as we are raced differently. We are influenced by what we read, experience and what people we love or live with experience and make them happy.
Enjoy your projects of life..
U b Stupid foo
According to u poor people have only drms. .thn wht about Abdul kalamji,and Dr.B.R.Ambedkar they r cmg frm pøör family na. .once gv chance to poor people to stand up nd see them.dnt blame poor people.
you guys are crazyyyy….i was born into a poor situation with poor nutrition and a “poor school” and i worked my ass off and now i go to a prestige school and do alot of independent research also….ive owned my own companies ive started a retirement fund and manage my own stock online……see unlike half the people i know im working my ass off not to survive but to thrive
This post is about 50% BS. I am relatively successful, but a great deal of it was from luck and family circumstances. My parents decided to have only one child, and gave me all the opportunities they never had. My imagination, creativity, and intelligence were all highly stimulated. I was provided with books, enrichment, quality time with Mom & Dad, and lots of encouragement. I had excellent health care, and supported despite several potentially limiting health conditions. I was encouraged and expected to go to college, and allowed to live home while working full time until I made enough to support myself. I WAS VERY, VERY LUCKY. I might have had none of those factors, and it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to be where I am today. Granted, I have taken some unorthodox routes to save money, when I wasn’t making much. Sometimes just being eccentric helps, too; you tend not to care about what you’re “supposed” to be doing or what everyone else wants. And being successful can also mean having a middle income job while living far beneath your means.
I think far too many people have a very ridged idea about what success is about.
My Rules For Being Successful
1. Don’t have kids you can’t afford
2. Don’t drink or smoke (big money wasters)
3 . Read all your life (libraries saved my life)
4. Ignore the crwd
Excellent site. A lot of helpful info here. I’m sending it to several buddies ans also sharing in delicious. And naturally, thank you to your sweat!
this blog is a true depiction of the diff between poor and a rich.there are so many ways to be rich like marrying into rich class ,be a clever and cheat to be rich …etc but people leaving a mark have turned aginst their fortunes by imbibing such qualities mentioned above.
hy have a good day
This article is ignorant. A basic class of sociology would trump this article in a heartbeat. It’s this kind of ignorance that makes the gap between the rich and the poor harder to close.
I love this article. Well written, inspiring & very insightful. I felt energised after reading it.
You have every point wrong, you are a slime ball.
It is not what you know its is WHO you know… my nephew who is still in college has never worked a day in his life got a nice paid internship this summer and next summer at the company where his father has worked for the last thirty years,and my uncle is upper management. I asked my uncle to help me get a job at the same company but he always gave me the run around.My nephew will probably get a nice offer from that company when he gets out of school…in which I have the same, if not more education,work experience etc. Its not what you know ….it is WHO.
The worlds fuked up and u know it.
The schools and colleges don’t teach children why 3% of population control 97% of the wealth? Instead schools and colleges teach children to compete for 3% of wealth. It is a tragedy today in the world that 97% of population in the world work 40 hours a week for 3% wealth. The 3% rich know the secret that 97% don’t know and even if they know, they don’t take action.
They know how to own 97% of wealth and they don’t necessarily buy stuff or liabilities. They buy assets that generate money for them every day or every week or every month without their presence. These people know how to make use of various leverages and they are well educated in terms of money and financial laws and terms. They invest and acquire assets such as business, real estates, education, personally monitored stocks and bonds.
There is between $40 – $44 trillion in the world. 97% of the world own only about 1.3 trillion.
However even more shocking is that 50% of the worlds population live on $2.50 a day . Thats about
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population
accounts for 5 percent of global income.
You tell me if the worlds fuked up or not….
There some who dont abide by human nature. But it can be seen clearly that it is human nature for greed to overcome the kind human heart that is often perceived as human nature by society today.
Bill Gates is a fcking genius.. his parents taught him all his skills..
and gave him a lot to start off with..
Bill Gates had a MAJOR advantage..
trying to live as long as possible will result in wealth.. along the way..
that’s what I’d go with as the answer..
life in only game. those who know how to win game of life win. education is only game. marriage is only game. job is only game – nothing more. job does not mean anything anymore because if they don’t need you, they will not keep you. if you play game right and win, it is only game — until you lose.
like video game, you only go so far, then you lose. losers cannot keep jobs or be good at marriage because they do not know how to play the game.
if you know how to play game and win, you live good life. if not, you have hard time.
Poor are really poor
Poor are really poor
they should not be looked down in the society.
HAHAHAH this has got to be the most ignorant piece of literature I’ve ever read XD
the roles in life never change. everyone cant be rich because the world wont run. who will take out the garbage? there must be a teacher , ther emust be a nurse , there must be a business man or any other role you can think of because thats how this world we live in runs. you have to decide which role you want to play because the role never change. everyone could be rich but it will take some longer than some , even lifetimes . mabye you will be rich in your 15th life time but get as close as you can for now time is wasting
Heck, I’m not rich, but I am certainly working my way up there. In my savings account, in less than a month, I have already saved near two grand.
After reading this, I tend to think it is BS. A person makes his own success…and happiness. If that is being a surfer and living in a shack than so be it. Others choose the penthouse and still others the rodeo. Success isn’t measured in dollars but in the number of people you positively affect. It’s A Wonderful Life.
not my words!
It will be harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven , than it will be for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
my words, anyone care to observe a child under 7 and listen to them, especially those that see no tv, will soon begin to understand the words above that are not mine.
money runs everything, only the strong survive . everyones out to get you trust no one. if you dont have money you mean nothing to this world. your gonna B**ch like its not but it is. just turned 18 and i refuse to be anything less then rich at all cost i will be rich.
These comments truly do prove the author’s points. Instead you guys trying to learn something from this article – you immediately attack it as if you all already know everything. Once again, you all are not trying to learn something but disregard it.
I have been fortunate to be born into a very well off family. However, nothing has been given to me (except for food and clothing). I pushed myself in high school and would stay up until 2 or 3 am studying for tests so that I could get accepted into a top school (this was between sophomore and senior year…) Hell I would even study 8 to 10 hours a test as a freshman in HIGH SCHOOL! Yes, even though I didn’t have to work a job, I instead applied myself to other activities. I would take any leadership opportunity in the clubs I belonged to. In college (I’m a fourth year) I have continued my hard work and dedication. I would sacrifice a lot of weekends not going out so that I would continue to preform well.
So, many would argue, well your parents have sooooo many connections, you’re set. However, I was told I would not be given any of their connections for an internship or a job. I was responsible for that. So what did I do? I CREATED my own network. I sought out assistance from teachers, from mentors, from whoever that would listen to me so that I could succeed. A lot of people complain, oh I don’t know anyone. Well if you don’t know anyone, then go out and search. Freaking work and do your research and do whatever you can to talk to people that can help you. I would cold call companies, I would contact alumni all on my own and try to create an opportunity – not waste my time complaining about how I couldn’t use my parent’s network or how I didn’t have everything handed to me.
My parents specifically did this to teach ME how to become successful. You have to sacrifice, think big, and always have a path with everything you do.
Let me tell you, there are so many rich kids that don’t have the work ethic so they won’t succeed. Yeah, they may get a good job right after college, but never working in their lives will catch up to them and therefore, they will most definitely fail.
Hard work and positivity is what you need to become successful. I’m still in college but everyday I tell myself, I will be successful, I will be big – I remind myself everyday what my ultimate goal is so that I keep myself motivated to work hard.
Ask yourself, how hard do you work? Do you think you work hard? How many times have you said you would work hard for a test but end up not really caring? How many times have you said I will get good grades, but end up not getting them because you end up slacking? How many times do you blame the professor for making a hard test but you only studied 20 or 30 hours for the test? Yes I said 20 to 30 hours… I have studied up to 50 hours for a final exam so that I could do well. How many of you have done that??
You need to understand what working hard is for the successful. It means working 12 to 18 hours a day. It means not having weekends. It means killing yourself with no sleep because you have the passion and the integrity in everything you do. It means not wasting the time complaining when you can be using that time towards a better goal. If you don’t think you can succeed you won’t succeed. It’s easy as that. My mom grew up in poverty and would many times sleep in her mom’s car instead of a house when growing up. But she knew she was better than that. She had a plan in site. She worked EXTREMELY hard so that when the OPPORTUNITIES came to her, she could be ready for them and exploit them. People who wait for opportunities to be knocking at their doors will be unpleasantly surprised when they don’t hear the knocking. YOU create YOUR opportunities.
I mean, if you want, keep on your way of thinking, it means less competition for me… But if you really want to become successful, there is no way you can obtain it without hard work – which means many sleepless nights and a lot of days of no fun. If you’re not willing to take a chance, if you’re not willing to believe in yourself, then you’re simply not in the contest to be successful.
For all of those Bill Gates haters – yeah he went to private school but, he took the opportunity of his private school having a computer programming lab and exploited it. If you ever read about his childhood, you would know he would stay in that lab with some friends until it was 4 am, every night, including saturday’s and sunday’s. Take opportunities and exploit them. Obviously education isn’t everything, Bill Gates in then end dropped out of college. But how did he build his empire? Through hard work.
Lastly, I’ve seen kids that have come from the inner cities at my college. These are some of the hardest working at my college, and guess what? They are the ones that have most of the jobs. They only knew hard work and they were able to capitalize on that.
Wow, sorry for this rant but the comments were some of the most ridiculous, hopeless, pitiful things I’ve ever read.
I’m by no means rich, but I agree that you must have the right mindset. I’m constantly coming up with new ideas and working hard to see if they stick. If they don’t work, it’s a learning experience and I work harder on the next one.
Everything in life happens because of luck… good or bad. Rich people put themselves in situations where they got lucky. If Bill Gates was born 10 years later he probably wouldn’t have struck it rich with Microsoft. He was in the right place at the right time with the right level of knowledge. I guarantee that we would have gotten rich off another idea though, because he is smart, hardworking and resourceful.
The harder someone works the more chances they will have to be rich. If you never put yourself in the situation to “accidentally” become rich, you will never be.
It took 1000 attempts for Thomas Edison to invent the light bulb. If he sat around complaining after the first attempt he would have never made it.
Regardless, you must work hard. Losers that sit around all day complaining never get ahead, no matter how high their IQ is.
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
—Thomas Jefferson
Think about the quote above and the post will make perfect sense.
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hye all… in my personal opinions, i think that this post was good, infact really good… for those whoa are blamming and give bad comments on this post.. thank you for sharing… but what i think that this blogger want to say is that … in life…. we need to be hardworking to have what ever we want.. dont give up easily.. it got have nothing to do either you are rich or porr.. we all humans… we are all equally are the same.. we’ve been given brain just like enstein and bill gates.. but the matter here is, how do you use your brain in order for you to success? bill gates done it, enstein achieved it.. trump has proved it to you.. a lot of examples we can take from their stories… but we ourself need to take action… dont blame others.. stop complain… if u keep on blaming and complaining.. u just aint going no where.. what if u change all the cristism to the positive… u dnot have money.. dont blame others and complain… what u should do is find ways to ern more… u not rich enough.. try to think what u nedd to do to get rich,,, u dont have opportunity.. then seek for opportunity and have a lot of successful friends than teach others on how to be success… its Karma… do good things , then good things will happen to you as return… u dont have nothing to lose…just think positive in life… ofcourse not all of us have the great opportunity, but what we can do is try to aim at the star.. so its never mind if u cant reach the star but atleast you reach the moon… in life, set your target as high as possible.. try harder and the rest.. just leave it to got… that what all religion thought their follower.. i believe…. May god bless u…
but if you compare these situations in India its completely different, that is poor people live happier than the rich people,and of course the poor children can study better than the rich person children
thanks a lot but when we don’t have the source or money how we should start from the zero point?
actually you pointed the thing which i need it right now.tnx