| The Ultimate Business Machine Technology, business And, not least, about by: Bernard Teo
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The Ultimate Business Machine - ArchivesList of Categories : Database * Technology * Commentary * Singapore * Travel * Sun 18 May 2003 PassivityCategory : Commentary/passivity.txt I believe Robert Kiyosaki has a point. We should try to understand money, learn how to accumulate money wisely and, as a counterpoint, realise how our lives could be destroyed if we let money control us, rather than the other way around. I've found Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Cashflow Quadrant very useful and they're things I want to teach my kid, e.g., how to tell the difference between an investment and an expense. Many people commonly get these ideas mixed up, to their life's detriment. I'm not saying that it's easy to implement these ideas, just because I've read them. I'm finding that it still needs a lot of hard work to, not just accumulate investments, but also to turn them into healthy inflows of passive income. Passive income is income you earn without being actually "there", e.g. from collecting rent from other people using your physical or intellectual property. A guy who lives two doors down my street collects rent from properties accumulated by his late father. Nice work (or non-work) if you can get it. The rest of us have to work a bit harder to create assets attractive enough for others to want to employ, for a fee. It's not that I have anything against hard work. Quite the opposite. But I've seen how you can work yourself into the ground and leave no time for your family. You've got to strike a balance. It takes vision to see a need that people are willing to pay money to satisfy. Then it takes a lot of ingenuity, creativity and management skills to crystallise it into a system that can satisfy that need consistently and (apparently) effortlessly, so that it can be operated by mere mortals and scaled to fit whenever and wherever possible, without your needing to be there. So there you have it - two essential sets of skills. I believe that, if you can solve a problem at a reasonable cost for others, nobody should begrudge you your wealth. That's the root of capitalism. But it's not enough to want money. You need to see the relationship between passive income (the most efficient way to earn an income) and a system that can generate that income on your behalf, in a way deserving of the adjective "passive". That system is your very own business machine. And, in most cases, you can bet that there's an IT element in there, somewhere. |
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