[Hildy]

I guess it's your definition of rich...I'm 47, my husband is 67...I decided to take several years off and have a "retirement" with my husband as by the time I'm of retirement age, he may not be as "energetic" as he is now. Being busy working to accumulate money is fine...but it's not everything. I know we all know this, but after an article like this, I just felt it appropriate to mention again.

[dinoparty]

I'd gladly live my life in a mud hut if the only alternative were to be a loser like the author of this piece.

[Puppage]

Lazy People Don't Get Rich

I beg to differ

[ShadowAce]

It's not everyone's goal in life to become rich. There are other priorities....

[Kenton]

Gosh, Mr. Kiyosaki, you sound like the smartest guy in the world! I'm glad to hear about your self-esteem, if only everybody was like you! Are you sure that the rest of us are worthy of your wisdom?

Psssst.... you make some good points, but I bet you spend an awful lot of time looking at yourself in the mirror practicing looking cool, don't you? ;)

[Egon]

ping

[50sDad]

1) This is a generalization, and like all generalizations, is often true.

2) This is social Darwinism.

3) This is not always a truism. Robert Heinlein once noted that 99% of all human advancement is based on finding a lazier way of doing something. Driving a car is "lazier" than riding a horse, but it gets you there faster. Fertilizer and a combine might be termed "lazier" than raising food with a hand hoe, but in the end, it gets you a hundredfold greater yield.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've been tweaking the sloth / wealth balance for some time now.

[peyton randolph]

Robert Kiyosaki is a schmuck who promotes multilevel (network) marketing as a means to riches. It was the only way he could sell his books and related products.

I call it the "Zig Ziglar Method." Ziglar, author of "Network Marketing for Dummies," prostituted himself out to MLMs before Kiyosaki...would have been an absolute nobody if he hadn't aligned himself with Mary Kay. The funny thing is that about five years ago, Ziglar set up his own MLM to sell his products. Failed miserably. 

 

[ansel12]

It is more than just being lazy, you find many very energetic, hard working people in Christian pursuits, to hobby pursuits, to obsessions like the military ( good example do you think a man that devotes his whole career to being a $50.00.00 a year Special Forces soldier is just too lazy to do something else?).


To make great wealth one has to desire it.

A common question of the non rich about the rich is, why do they keep working after they are rich?

Calling people lazy because they don't put their energies into what you do, is small minded.

[Lancey Howard]

"It's not fair. I think the government should confiscate money from ambitious, hard-working rich people and give it over to lazy poor people." - - typical Democrat

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Another word that begins with "L" is "loser." , i.e., the author of this trite piece of ess.

[BikerGold]

It's in this spirit that I opened by saying that lazy people don't get rich. I also said that the difference between "God" and "gold" is a simple "L" -- as in "lazy," or "looting."

Stainless!!!...this is g-oo--oo-oo-oo-ood!

Remember the FReepeer Ff--150 who kept being shuttled to the icebox at the county charity hospital? Who had credit collectors parading in and out of his house, wondering how they were going to get that freebie, starting up his truck and looking under the hood to appraise what they would get for that Ford?

He always ranted about giving to the Lord through Benny Hinn, TBN, Kenneth Copeland etc.

That old cripple with the cancer-ravaged face is freakin' rich! His kids are set. Isn't life whacko!???

He's thinking about planting culms of giant black bamboo because they will be good fodder after this drought has run its course in a few years.

[yoe]

As you may know, the Bush administration has printed more funny money -- over a trillion dollars' worth -- in six years than all past U.S. presidents combined.

Want to back that up with fact? No mention is made of the rampant counterfeiting of US dollars done by Korea, China and who knows who else - counterfeiting so perfect the real McCoy is almost a has been.

[RexBeach]

Who is the a**hole who wrote this piece? I am supposed to know who he is? He sure writes that way.

[Mr. Jeeves]

You wouldn't be reading Yahoo! Finance if you weren't serious about being rich or becoming rich.

Those who are serious about becoming rich aren't wasting their time reading shallow articles in Yahoo! Finance. ;)

[dennisw]

Robert Kiyosaki is the author. He was on PBS last night. He appears to have his own show. I flipped the channel. The guy's a pant load

[Egon]

Wow. Rarely have I seen such a load of Liberal crap.

Ironically, it's not found in the article, but in most of the responses.

[Starboard]

..."sensitive" like our old, more traditional forms of media.

There's a tendency in the MSM to portray "have-nots" as being the product of societal neglect at best and misfortunate victims of the ruling classes at worst. These "victims" are almost always characterized as virtuous innocents. Granted, financial misfortune and struggles come to all of us now and then but sometimes being poor is simply due to laziness and/or self-destructive habits. The MSM is too senstive and vested in the liberal perspective to honestly tell it like it is.

[napscoordinator]

Dang. The teachers always told my parents that I was lazy in school and did not work near my potential....well today, I am not rich. They must have been right. Darn!!! lol.