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not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure
is part of the process of
success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
I look at money much like my game of tennis. I play hard, make
mistakes, correct, make more mistakes, correct, and get better. If
I lose the game,
I reach across the net, shake my opponent’s hand,
smile, and say, “See you next Saturday.”
There are two kinds of investors:
1. The first and most common type is a person who buys a
packaged investment. They call a retail outlet, such as a real
estate company, a stockbroker,
or a financial planner, and they
buy something. It could be a mutual fund, a REIT, a stock or
a bond. It is a clean and simple way of investing.
An analogy
would be a shopper who goes to a computer store and buys a
computer right off the shelf.
2. The second type is an investor who creates investments.
This investor usually assembles a deal in the same way a
person who buys components builds a computer. I do not
know the first thing about putting
components of a computer
together, but I do know how to put pieces of opportunities
together, or know people who know how.
It is this second type of investor who is the more professional
investor. Sometimes it may take years for all the pieces to come
together. And sometimes they never do. It’s this
second type of investor
that my rich dad encouraged me to be. It is important to learn how to
put the pieces together, because that is where the huge wins reside, and
sometimes some huge losses if the tide goes against you.
If you want to
be the second type of investor, you need to develop
three main skills.
