Wealth File #15

Rich people have their money work hard for them.
Poor people work hard for their money.

By T Harv Eker

If you’re like most people, you grew up being programmed that you “have to work hard for money.” Chances are good, however, that you didn’t grow up with the conditioning that it was just as important to make your money “work hard for you.”

No question, working hard is important, but working hard alone will never make you rich. How do we know that? Take a look in the real world. There are millions—no, make that billions—of people who slave away, working their tails off all day and even all night long. Are they all rich? No! Are most of them rich? No! Are a lot of them rich? No! Most of them are broke or close to it. On the other hand, whom do you see lounging around the country clubs of the world? Who spends their afternoons playing golf, tennis, or sailing? Who spends their days shopping and their weeks vacationing? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.

Rich people, that’s who! So let’s get this straight: the idea that you have to work hard to get rich is bogus!

The old Protestant work ethic states “a dollar’s work for a dollar’s pay.” There’s nothing wrong with that adage except that they forgot to tell us what to do with that “dollar’s pay.” Knowing what to do with that dollar is where you move from hard work to smart work.

Rich people can spend their days playing and relaxing because they work smart. They understand and use leverage. They employ other people to work for them and their money to work for them.

Yes, in my experience, you do have to work hard for your money. For rich people, however, this is a temporary situation. For poor people, it’s permanent. Rich people understand that “you” have to work hard until your “money” works hard enough to take your place. They understand that the more your money works, the less you will have to work.

Remember, money is energy. Most people put work energy in and get money energy out. People who achieve financial freedom have learned how to substitute their investment of work energy with other forms of energy. These forms include other people’s work, business systems at work, or investment capital at work. Again, first you work hard for money, then you let money work hard for you.

When it comes to the money game, most people don’t have a clue as to what it takes to win. What’s your goal? When do you win the game? Are you shooting for three square meals a day, $100,000 a year in income, becoming a millionaire, becoming a multimillionaire? At the Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar, the goal of the money game we teach is to “never have to work again... unless you choose to,” and that if you work, you work “by choice, not by necessity.”

In other words, the goal is to become “financially free” as quickly as possible. My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

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