For most of us we have spent our lives being marketed to and often buying that car or other consumer product.   Once we have acquired it – it has lost us money.   We all have aspirations and dreams and the marketing machine in our society is relentless.

People who are rich or get rich take a different approach to the acquisition model.  They buy assets, often of various types and will grow their wealth by investing in those asset classes.   Over time those assets will all produce substantial returns BEFORE they go out and buy their consumer toys.

Poor people on the other hand are led by the “instant gratification – get it now” mentality and will take on finance for all manner of types of products from televisions to domestic appliances an end up over-paying massively on credit cards at ridiculous interest rates for items that will have no residual value.

As a result they will spend their lives just trying to get ahead and feeling life is tough.

Rich people on the other hand will collect land, property, stocks – Poor people will mostly collect bills.

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