7 main differences between rich and poor people…

**vancouver** · 12-13-2011, 08:31 PM

7 Main Differences Between Rich And Poor People » The Millionaire Secrets

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 are 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 are good learners while poor people think that they have learned everything in the world.

One of the fastest ways to 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.

**DOMS** · 12-13-2011, 08:45 PM

8. Rich people like reality. Poor people feel like they've been shit on.

**BillHicksFan** · 12-13-2011, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

8. Rich people like reality. Poor people feel like they've been shit on.

That's not true at all. I know plenty of people who are extremely happy and far from wealthy.

I also know rich people who are completely miserable.

Money merely gives us options and without options life is hard but it's impossible to buy happiness.

**DOMS** · 12-13-2011, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by BillHicksFan

That's not true at all. I know plenty of people who are extremely happy and far from wealthy.

I also know rich people who are completely miserable.

Money merely gives us options and without options life is hard but it's impossible to buy happiness.

True, but I think that, overall, a certain amount of wealth is needed to have the option of enjoying life. At times when I was poor, I was happy, but it was never when I was starving or homeless.

**BillHicksFan** · 12-13-2011, 09:40 PM

Absolutely. With wealth comes opportunity to do the things we want. I too have lived in worlds of both wealth and poverty. When both of these stages in my life were at their peak it became clear what the most important things in life were.

Money can't buy happiness and love can't pay the bills. A medium needs to be found in order for anybody to be happy. If you have an abundance of both then you are truly one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Just my opinion.

**DOMS** · 12-13-2011, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by BillHicksFan

Absolutely. With wealth comes opportunity to do the things we want. I too have lived in worlds of both wealth and poverty. When both of these stages in my life were at their peak it became clear what the most important things in life were.

Money can't buy happiness and love can't pay the bills. A medium needs to be found in order for anybody to be happy. If you have an abundance of both then you are truly one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Just my opinion.

All good points, but I can't help but think of a quote from Tosh, "You can't frown on a WaveRunner."

**vancouver** · 12-13-2011, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by BillHicksFan

Absolutely. With wealth comes opportunity to do the things we want. I too have lived in worlds of both wealth and poverty. When both of these stages in my life were at their peak it became clear what the most important things in life were.

Money can't but happiness and love can't pay the bills. A medium needs to be found in order for anybody to be happy. If you have an abundance of both then you are truly one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Just my opinion.

Actually, money can buy happiness and it as been proven countless times by many universities. I do get what you are say though and agree.

Money makes good people better and bad people worse.

This thread really is about the rich persons mindset though, whether happy or not. This said, the studies I mentioned show this same mindset is why rich people also tend to be happy people, this and access to better health.

Not a lot of people realize that 80% of millionaires in the U.S. are self made. I'm sure there are plenty in the 20% that a miserable, but I'm betting there are far fewer in the 80%...

**DOMS** · 12-13-2011, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by vancouver

Money makes good people better and bad people worse.

Very nicely said.

**TonyMack** · 12-13-2011, 09:59 PM

I worked for someone worth over $100 million and he was the most miserable person I ever met. Absolute crook, played every deal to be the sole winner and didn't want anyone to make a decent living. He was only satisfied if he fucked everyone involved.

The worst 3 years of my life. Before I worked for him I thought I wanted to be rich. Changed my views on wealth and happiness. Now I have a very clear picture: The best things in life cannot be bought or sold.

**Chubby** · 12-13-2011, 10:37 PM

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
~Benjamin Franklin

**BillHicksFan** · 12-13-2011, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by DOMS

"You can't frown on a WaveRunner."

Originally Posted by vancouver

Money makes good people better and bad people worse.

That does seem to the truth.

**LAM** · 12-14-2011, 12:51 AM

"Income’s Influence on Happiness"
By Staff

People’s life evaluations rise steadily with income, but the reported quality of emotional daily experience levels off at a certain income level, according to a new study by two Princeton University professors, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, and Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs (Emeritus), analyzed over 450,000 responses to a daily survey of 1,000 randomly selected U.S. residents and found that while life evaluation rose steadily with annual income, the quality of the respondents’ everyday experiences did not improve beyond approximately $75,000 a year.

As the study suggests, emotional well being refers to the emotional quality of an individual’s everyday experience and is assessed by the respondents’ report of the time spent in certain positive and negative emotional states the previous day. Life evaluation refers to a person’s thoughts about his or her life and is measured by respondents’ rating of their lives on a ladder scale of zero to ten.

“We find that emotional well being and life evaluation have different correlates in the circumstances of people’s lives. In particular, we observe striking differences in the relationship of these aspects of well being to income,” the authors note in the study.

As income decreased from $75,000, respondents reported decreasing happiness and increasing sadness and stress. The data suggest that the pain of life’s misfortunes, including disease, divorce, and being alone, is exacerbated by poverty.

“We conclude that lack of money brings both emotional misery and low life evaluation; similar results were found for anger,” write the authors in the report. “Beyond $75,000 in the contemporary United States, however, higher income is neither the road to experienced happiness nor the road to the relief of unhappiness or stress, although higher income continues to improve individuals’ life evaluations.”

The study does not imply that a financial increase will not improve the quality of life, but suggests that above a certain income level, people’s emotional wellbeing is constrained by other factors, such as temperament and life circumstances.

The take home message of the study is that high incomes don’t bring you happiness, but they do bring you a life that you think is better.

Noted WWS Dean Christina Paxson, “This is a very important study. The findings are robust, based on an incredible data source provided by the Gallup Organization and the Healthways Corporation – a survey of 450,000 people that, for the first time, distinguishes between two important types of subjective well being, which turned out to be critical for the findings.”

To read the article in its entirety online, go to: High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being

http://wws.princeton.edu/news/Income...ney_Report.pdf

http://wws.princeton.edu/news/Income...ey_Summary.pdf

**meow** · 12-14-2011, 02:24 AM

The difference is in their mentality. Rich people know they can, poor people think they can't.

**Dale Mabry** · 12-14-2011, 04:31 AM

I sort of agree with a few of them. Primarily, I think happiness is linked to achievement. I imagine most people who build their fortune on their own are very happy, whereas inherited wealth brings many problems, not the least of which is an absentee parent/parents.

**Zaphod** · 12-14-2011, 06:38 AM

I've got everything I'll ever need or want. Three wonderful children and a wonderful wife. As long as I have those I'm all set. Having money just makes life a little easier.

**ALBOB** · 12-14-2011, 09:08 AM

9. Rich people have a lot of money, poor people don't

**DOMS** · 12-14-2011, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by LAM

The study does not imply that a financial increase will not improve the quality of life, but suggests that above a certain income level, people’s emotional wellbeing is constrained by other factors, such as temperament and life circumstances.

This state is "win."

What it's saying is that money alone can't bring happiness, but it certainly sets the foundation for a person that's in touch with themselves.

**ebn2002** · 12-14-2011, 09:22 AM

#10. Rich people put in the effort to get rich that poor people do not.

**Chubby** · 12-14-2011, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by ALBOB

9. Rich people have a lot of money, poor people don't

Drug smugglers, bank robbers and terrorist also have lot of money.

**ALBOB** · 12-14-2011, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by Chubby

Drug smugglers, bank robbers and terrorist also have lot of money.

If we're talking purely monetarily, then I'd call them rich.

**Chubby** · 12-14-2011, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by ALBOB

If we're talking purely monetarily, then I'd call them rich.

Yes, you guys all fall in the same category. They are not rich, they just have lots of money.

**Dale Mabry** · 12-14-2011, 09:43 AM

11. Rich people do Coke, poor people do crack

**DOMS** · 12-14-2011, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by Chubby

Yes, you guys all fall in the same category. They are not rich, they just have lots of money.

You're not retarded, you just don't have a fully functional brain.

**Chubby** · 12-14-2011, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by DOMS

You're not retarded, you just don't have a fully functional brain.

You are just a wanna be 1%. Fake onese don't count.

**GFR** · 12-14-2011, 09:55 AM

What is rich?

I think you should have put upper middle class in to replace rich.

Rich is worth 100 million or more, and most of those people got their money because of family and family connections.

**ALBOB** · 12-14-2011, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Chubby

Yes, you guys all fall in the same category. They are not rich, they just have lots of money.

I don't make up the definitions of words, I just use them correctly.

rich[rich] Origin rich /rɪtʃ/ Show Spelled [rich] Show IPA adjective, -er, -est, noun
adjective
1. having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
2. abounding in natural resources: a rich territory.
3. having wealth or valuable resources (usually followed by in ): a country rich in traditions.
4. abounding (usually followed by in or with ): a countryside rich in beauty; a design rich with colors.
5. of great value or worth; valuable: a rich harvest

**DOMS** · 12-14-2011, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Chubby

You are just a wanna be 1%. Fake onese don't count.

When did I say I was a 1%? Also, are you intimating that only the 1% should have an opinion on what constitutes being wealthy?

Should you be drinking a cup of bleach, anyway?

**Chubby** · 12-14-2011, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

11. Rich people do Coke, poor people do crack

Drugs build muscle, while cokes make you fat.

**LAM** · 12-14-2011, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by GeorgeForemanRules

What is rich?

I think you should have put upper middle class in to replace rich.

Rich is worth 100 million or more, and most of those people got their money because of family and family connections.

many don't understand that. to the super-rich there is no difference between a millionaire and person on TANF or food stamps, etc. as in comparison both of them are poor.

**Zaphod** · 12-14-2011, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by ebn2002

#10. Rich people put in the effort to get rich that poor people do not.

Yes, indeed!

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