Last week, I bought a book written by Robert Kiyosaki – the all time best-seller, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.” It’s not like I’ve not come across the book before – but I guess all those times, I never really “looked” at it.

It’s been less than 24 hours, and I’ve not been able to put the book now. Being a young entrepreneur myself, these were lessons that I had to share with you.

So for those of you who cannot imagine spending their precious time with their noses stuck in a 263 page book, let me share with you some financial tips I learnt and are now applying to my Web Design business.

These are just tips – If you need more, you’d best go buy yourself a copy of the book – and no, I’m not a marketer for him!

• People who play it safe let life push them into submission. Their fear of losing is greater than the excitement of winning.
• Most people have a price. Each human being has a part of himself that can be bought; and that same human being has another part of himself that is strong and can never be bought.
• The pattern of get up, go to work, pay your bills; get up, go to work, pay your bills, keep repeating itself generation after generation. Most people never get out of the rut. This is the rat race. No matter how much they earn, they’re just making money for someone else.
• Don’t let your emotions ruin you by controlling your thinking.
• Question yourself – where will the rat race lead you? (See point 3)
• Don’t deceive yourself – the government or the company you work for, is only after its belly. Sooner or later, they’ll downsize you. What will you do then? Apply for another job? Or start using your brain to make money for yourself?
• Keep using your brain, and sooner or later, your mind will show you ways of making money beyond what any man can ever pay you.
• Let the money you earn work to bring in more money.
• Money without intelligence is money soon gone.
• What people call greed, is simply desire.