“Remember what I said before: A job is only a short-term

solution to a long-term problem. Most people have only one

problem in mind, and it’s short-term. It’s the bills at the end
of the month, the Tar Baby. Money controls their lives, or
should I say the fear and ignorance about money controls it.
So they do as their parents did. They get up every day and
go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question,
‘Is there another way?’ Their emotions now control their
thinking, not their heads.”
“Can you tell the difference between emotions thinking
and the head thinking?” Mike asked.
“Oh, yes. I hear it all the time,” said rich dad. “I hear
things like, ‘Well, everyone has to work.’ Or ‘The rich are
crooks.’ Or ‘I’ll get another job. I deserve this raise. You
can’t push me around.’ Or ‘I like this job because it’s
secure.’ No one asks, ‘Is there something I’m missing here?’
which would break through the emotional thought and give
you time to think clearly.”
As we headed back to the store, rich dad explained that
the rich really did “make money.” They did not work for it.
He went on to explain that when Mike and I were casting
five-cent pieces out of lead, thinking we were making
money, we were very close to thinking the way the rich
think. The problem was that creating money is legal for the
government and banks to do, but illegal for us to do. There
are legal ways to create money from nothing, he told us.
Rich dad went on to explain that the rich know that
money is an illusion, truly like the carrot for the donkey. It’s
only out of fear and greed that the illusion of money is held
together by billions of people who believe that money is
real. It’s not. Money is really made up. It is only because of
the illusion of confidence and the ignorance of the masses
that this house of cards stands.
He talked about the gold standard that America was on,
and that each dollar bill was actually a silver certificate.
What concerned him was the rumor that we would someday