KILIAN FAVOURITE MOVIES

The Godfather Trilogy

 

The Godfather is a film series consisting of three feature-length crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola based upon the novel of the same name by Italian American author Mario Puzo.Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael’s sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael’s family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia Families to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, much against the advice of the Don’s lawyer Tom Hagen, the Don is morally against the use of drugs, and turns down the offer. This does not please Sollozzo, who has the Don shot down by some of his hit men. The Don barely survives, which leads his son Michael to begin a violent mob war against Sollozzo and tears the Corleone family apart.










The Last Don
 

Sprawling Mario Puzo novel about an Italian family of gangsters draws the inevitable comparison to "The Godfather", but does find its own direction. Headed by Don Domenico Clericuzio, the family executes a rival gang on the night of the Don's daughter's wedding, including her new husband, the son of his rival. Unfortunately the daughter gets pregnant and the repercussions of the night drift into the future. Spanning 1964-1985, the film jumps forward with the growing up of the grandson who has grown ruthless and scheming. A co-rival in the family is a nephew who has been raise to take his father's place in the family as a hitman and has established his place by assassinating a man who killed a Senator's daughter. However, he is proven to not be ruthless enough and moves into the family's casino business in Vegas. When the nephew falls in love with a beautiful actress, everything is set in place for the grandson to set up a coupe to take over the family.

Scarface - Sterling Al Pacino
 

An update of the 1932 film, Scarface (1983) follows gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. After killing a powerful Cuban figure, Montana and company gain the ability to leave their refugee camps and roam around the U.S. After unsuccessfully trying to make it legitamately in the country, Montana and Ray resort to selling cocaine to dealers around the world. Tony’s rise is quick, but as he becomes more powerful, his enemies and his own paranoia begin to plague his empire.

Goodfellas
 


 The lowly, blue-collar side of New York’s Italian mafia is explored in this crime biopic of wiseguy Henry Hill. As he makes his way from strapping young petty criminal, to big-time thief, to middle-aged cocaine addict and dealer, the film explores in detail the rules and traditions of organized crime. Watching the rise and fall of Hill and his two counterparts, the slick jack-of-all-trades criminal Jimmy Conway and the brutish, intimidating Tommy DeVito, this true story realistically explores the core, blue-collar part of the mob.


Casino -  Sterling Robert DeNiro, Ray Liota & Joe Pesci
 
 This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas–it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970′s and ’80′s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw–Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Carlittos Way- Sterling Al Pacino
 

 Carlito has just gotten out of prison due to technicalities with the help of his sleazy lawyer. After a life spent trafficking heroin he decides not to pursue the life of the streets. He buys into a night club and begins saving money to move to the Bahamas, but his presence as a known player makes it inevitable that he get sucked back into his violent former life.


John Gotti
 

 John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. He is known as the Dapper Don for his expensive taste in suits, and the Teflon Don because none of the FBI charges against him will stick. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.  

Witness to the Mob
 

Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.



Donnie Brasco- Sterling Al Pacino
 
 This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for ‘the bosses’. Eventually, the group become big time when Black himself becomes a boss, all the while Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished.


The Untouchables
 

1920′s prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and his empire, but it could just be that guns are not the best way to get him.

The Great Gatsby -  Leonardo DiCaprio
 

A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor.


Al Carpone
 
This factual biography of gang lord Al Capone follows his rise and fall in Chicago gangdom during the Prohibition era.


Source:

http://listverse.com/2007/09/18/top-20-best-gangster-movies/

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BIOGRAPHIES: MARK CUBAN - OWNER OF DALLAS MAVERICKS

At Age 25 Mark Cuban Learned Lessons About Leadership That Changed His Life

This story appears in the April 15, 2013 issue of Forbes Life. www.forbes.com

By Mark Cuban

At age 24, I left Indiana and hit the road in my 1977 Fiat X19. I was on my way to Dallas. The car had a hole in the floorboard. It needed oil every 60 miles. Some college buddies of mine had told me to come to Dallas–that the weather was great, that there were jobs and that the women were amazing. I didn’t hear the first two pieces, but I definitely heard the third.

But let me back up a bit. I’d been in Indiana for a few months, working at a place called Tronics 2000. Before that, I’d been in Pittsburgh, my hometown, where I joined Mellon Bank after graduating from Indiana University in 1980 at 22. Back then a lot of smaller regional banks still did everything on paper. Mellon had a department that went in and converted them to computerized systems. That’s what I did. A lot of my peers at Mellon were just happy to have a job. I wanted to be more entrepreneurial. I took the initiative. I used to send notes to the CEO of the bank. I once cut out a magazine story about how corporations could save money by withholding Social Security and sent it to him. He sent me a thank-you letter back. I started something called the “Rookie Club.” I’d invite senior executives to a happy hour to talk to a group of younger employees in their 20s like me. Then I went a little further. I started writing a newsletter. I did updates on current projects. I tried to inject a little humor. I thought my boss would love me for doing these things.
Instead, my boss called me into his office one day and ripped me a new one. “Who the f— do you think you are?” he yelled. I told him I was trying to help Mellon make more money. He told me

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TOFAUTI KATI YA WANAZUONI (INTELLECTUALS) NA WASOMI (INTELLECTS)

TOFAUTI KATI YA WANAZUONI (INTELLECTUALS) NA WASOMI (INTELLECTS)

Mwanazuoni ni nani? Je, kuna tofauti kati ya mwanazuoni (intellectual) na msomi (intellect worker/intelligentsia)?

 

Ndiyo, ipo tofauti. Wanazuoni wote, au karibu wote, ni wasomi lakini siyo wasomi wote wanakuwa wanazuoni. Mara moja moja inatokea kwamba mtu ambaye hajawahi kusoma katika taasisi yeyote ya elimu huwa mpevu kifikra na kwa hiyo huwa na sifa za mwanazuoni. Lakini hii ni nadra sana. Kwa kawaida wanazuoni wengi huwa wasomi. Kwa hivyo, hatuna budi tuanze kwa kueleza wasomi ni nani.

 

Msomi huishi kwa nguvu-akili wakati mvujajasho huishi kwa nguvu-mwili. Kwa maneno mengine, mfanyakazi huishi kwa jasho lake lakini msomi huishi kwa ubongo wake. Katika mfumo wa kibepari hii ni aina mojawapo ya mgawanyo wa kazi. Na tofauti kati ya msomi na mfanyakazi ni kubwa na ya kipekee. Inakuzwa, inatuzwa.

 

Msomi hujivunia utaalamu na uelewa wake. Na kusema ukweli wasomi wanakubalika katika jamii kama wanataaluma ingawa utaalamu wao unaweza ukawa mkubwa juu ya jambo dogo. Elimu ya kibwanyenye huigawanya taaluma katika visehemu vidogo vidogo. Kwa hivyo, kwa mfano, msomi wa uchumi siyo mtaalamu wa uchumi kwa ujumla, bali anaweza akawa mtaalamu wa fedha tu au wa sarafu tu na asiwe na ufahamu wowote wa uchumi kwa ujumla.

 

Msomi wa sheria anaweza akawa mtaalamu wa masoko ya hisa tu. Anawashauri wacheza “kamari” katika soko hili - ni wakati gani mwafaka wa kununua hisa na wakati gani wa kuziuza ili kujiongezea faida na utajiri. Mfano mmojawapo wa mtaalamu wa masoko ya hisa na fedha ni George Sorros, anajulikana kama msomi aliyejitajirisha kwa kuhamishahamisha fedha kutoka soko moja kwenda soko jingine. Baada ya kutengeneza faida na kutajirika kwa njia hii sasa anafadhili mashirika yasiyo ya kiserikali ya kutetea mfumo wa demokrasia ya kiliberali katika nchi nyingi, pamoja na Afrika.

 

Huyu ni msomi; anachuma fedha na kuishi maisha ya anasa na ya heshima kwa kutumia akili zake “shupavu” za kucheza “kamari”. Wako wasomi wa aina nyingi tu – wakuu wa mashirika ya biashara, wahandisi, wanasheria, wanasiasa, wanaharakati, wahadhiri, watumishi wa ngazi ya juu katika serikali, biashara, viwanda na wengine wengi. Lakini wengi hawa siyo wanazuoni. Wanazuoni hutofautishwa na wasomi kwa sifa kama sita hivi.

 

Moja ni kwamba mwanazuoni huchambua mambo kihistoria. Tukio au jambo limetoka wapi, liko wapi na linaelekea wapi. Mwongozo wake ni kuchambua mielekeo. Tukifananisha na mpiga picha, tunaweza kusema kwamba mwanazuoni hupiga video, sio picha. Hii haina maana kwamba kila mwanazuoni ni mwanahistoria. La hasha! Haiwezekani. Lakini kila mwanazuoni ana mwelekeo wa kihistoria katika uchambuzi wake.

 

Pili, na hili lina uhusiano wa karibu na hilo la kwanza, ni kwamba anaangalia mambo – hususan ya kijamii – katika uhusiano wake na mambo mengine. Kwa mwanazuoni, hakuna jambo lisiloingiliana na jingine. Kuweza kuelewa mwingiliano ni muhimu, badala ya kulitenganisha tukio au jambo na muktadha wake. Kwa mfano, huwezi kuelewa chanzo au vyanzo vya umaskini katika jamii bila kuelewa historia yake na uhusiano wake na utajiri. Umaskini na utajiri ni kama mapacha na vina historia moja. Matajiri wachache wananeemeka na umaskini wa wengi. Kwa hivyo, kuna mwingiliano kati ya umaskini na utajiri. Hata hivyo, baadhi ya wasomi huchambua umaskini bila kuangalia historia yake na kuchukulia, bila kudadisi, kana kwamba umaskini umekuwepo tangu enzi za kale na utaendelea kuwepo milele, isipokuwa labda unaweza kupunguzwa. Tuna mashirika mengi yanayozungumzia upunguzwaji wa umaskini (poverty alleviation) badala ya utokomezaji wa umaskini. Na huwezi kutokomeza umaskini bila kuelewa vizuri chanzo cha umaskini, uhusiano wake na utajiri na mfumo wenyewe unaozaa matabaka ya walionacho na wasionacho.

 

Tatu, mwanazuoni huamini kwamba ukweli haugawanyiki, the truth is the whole. Maana yake ni kwamba huwezi kupata ukweli wa jambo kama hujaliangalia jambo hilo katika muktadha wake. Nikitoa ule mfano maarufu, huwezi ukasema kwamba tembo ni kama kamba nene kwa sababu umegusa mkia wake au kwamba tembo ni mpana kwa sababu umegusa sikio lake. Ili kujua ukweli wa umbo la tembo ni lazima uangalie umbo lake zima. Nitoe mfano mwingine. Ukitaka kuchambua muundo wa kiti, huwezi ukachambua miguu yake tu. Wala huwezi kusema kwamba sehemu za kiti ni miguu na sehemu za kukalia na kuegemea. Ukijumlisha sehemu hizo hutapata kiti, utakachopata ni rundo la mbao! Ukitaka kuelewa muundo wa kiti kizima, huna budi uchambue jinsi na katika uhusiano upi, sehemu zake zote zimeunganishwa.

 

 Nne, mwanazuoni ni wakala wa mabadiliko ya hali iliyopo, na siyo mtumwa wake. Dhamira yake ni kuigeuza na siyo kuigandisha hali iliyopo. Dhamira yake ni kuleta hali bora katika jamii, hususan kwa walio wengi. Yeye daima ni mpambanaji. Anapambana dhidi ya dhuluma, uonevu, ukandamizaji na uovu mwingine popote pale ulipo. Ndiyo dhamira yake, ndiyo maisha yake, ndiyo uhai wake. Anajitambulisha na wapambanaji wenzake bila kujali wanakotoka, makabila yao, au rangi yao. Jamaa mmoja alimwandikia Che Guevara kwamba kutokana na majina yao kufanana labda wao ni ndugu wa damu. Che alimjibu kwamba yeye haoni kwamba wao ni ndugu: ‘Lakini’, namnukuu, ‘kama wewe unachukia uonevu popote pale ulipo, basi sisi ni ndugu, makamaradi …. bila kujali kama sisi ni ndugu wa damu’.

 

Tano, mwanazuoni hujali na kupigania maendeleo ya wanadamu, maendeleo ya wote, siyo ya wachache. Sita, ili kukidhi uelewa wa jamii na mazingira yake na ya ulimwengu, mwanazuoni hujikita kwenye uchambuzi wa kina, uchambuzi ambao unaongozwa na nadharia iliyopevuka. Ndiyo maana wanazuoni wengi, hususan wa Afrika, wanavutiwa zaidi na nadharia ya kimapinduzi ya usoshalisti. Kwa mwanazuoni huyo, ufahamu/elimu ni zana ya kukosoa hali ilivyo bila kusita na kuielekeza kwenye kubadili jamii, siyo bidhaa ya kuuzwa. Katika kusisitiza umuhimu wa nadharia ya kimapinduzi Amilcar Cabral, mkombozi na kiongozi wa Guinea Bissau, alisema: ‘Bila nadharia ya kimapinduzi hakuna mapinduzi yatakayoshinda’. Ni wazi kwamba sio kila mwanazuoni ana sifa hizo zote kama itaeleweka vizuri zaidi katika sehemu inayofuata kuhusu wanazuoni na matabaka ya kijamii. Wanazuoni wa tabaka Wanazuoni ni sehemu ya jamii na wana uhusiano na jamii. Hawawezi kudai kwamba wao ni wachambuzi tu wa mambo na kwamba taaluma yao haiguswi kwa namna yoyote ile na matakwa, hofu, hisia, matumaini, fikra, itikadi na mitazamo ya jamii. Kwa kuwa jamii yenyewe ya kibepari imegawanyika katika matabaka na makundi basi wanazuoni pia huwa wasemaji wa tabaka fulani au kundi fulani, ama bila kujua au bila ya kujitangaza.

 

Tabaka linalotawala hutawala pia mawazo, fikra na itikadi, ndiyo maana katika mfumo wa kibepari itikadi ya kibwanyenye hutawala. Wanazuoni na wasomi wengi hutumikia tabaka-tawala kwa njia moja au nyingine kwa kujenga na kusambaza itikadi yao. Hata hivyo, wanazuoni wachache hutamani kujiunga na wanyonge na kuwatetea. Hao ndiyo wanazuoni wa kimapinduzi. Hakuna mwanazuoni au msomi asiyejikita ama kwenye tabaka-nyonyaji au tabaka-nyonywaji. Wote hujikita kwenye tabaka fulani hata kama hawajitambui au kujitambulisha hivyo. Na mara nyingi, unaoonekana kama mgongano wa kimawazo au kinadharia ni mgongano wa mtazamo uliojikita kwenye tabaka au kundi fulani.

 

Mwanazuoni hufanya uchambuzi wa kijamii ili ayaelewe vizuri mazingira kwa shabaha mahsusi ya kuboresha hali ya maisha ya walio wengi. Yeye huanika uovu wote hadharani bila kujipendekeza. Katika hili uchambuzi wake unakuwa kamilifu bila kujali utamfurahisha nani na utamuudhi nani, na hata kama akisakamwa na wenye mamlaka na madaraka katika jamii, - wakiwemo watawala wa kisiasa au watawala watarajiwa au watawala wa kiuchumi, - hasiti kusema ukweli kama uchambuzi wake unamuelekeza kufanya hivyo.

 

 Kwa vyovyote vile, mwanazuoni mwanamapinduzi hawezi kukosa kuchukiwa na watawala na wenzao wa tabaka la kisiasa, political class. Kama mwanafalsafa wa kimapinduzi Karl Marx alivyosema: “It is certainly not our task to build up the future in advance and to settle all problems for all time, but it is just as certainly our task to criticise the existing world as ruthlessly in the sense that we must not be afraid of our own conclusions and equally unafraid of coming into conflict with the prevailing powers.” Kwa muhtasari, anachosema Marx ni kwamba kwa hakika siyo kazi ya wachambuzi au wanafalsafa kutanguliza kujenga mustakabali na kutatua matatizo yote kwa enzi zote, lakini ni kwa hakika pia kazi yao ni kukosoa hali ya ulimwengu iliyopo wakati huo bila kusita na kutokuhofia matokeo ya uchambuzi wao hata kama haya yatawaingiza kwenye misuguano na wenye madaraka.

 

Niongeze kusema kwamba ni wazi kabisa kwamba wanazuoni wanaotetea hali ilivyo bila shaka hawatakabiliwa na upinzani mkubwa kutoka kwa wale wanaofaidika na hali hiyo. Kwa upande mwingine, wale wanaotaka kubadili hali kwa mtazamo wa wavujajasho watakuwa na hali ngumu, watasakamwa, watatungiwa uongo, watadhalilishwa na hata kujeruhiwa au kuuawa. Kwao hii siyo hoja. Katika misitu ya Bolivia, wakati Che Guevara alipokutana ana kwa ana na wanajeshi mamluki wa Serikali, mmoja wao alimtambua na kulenga bastola yake kwake. Lakini alikuwa anasitasita kuifyatua. Che akamwambia, kwa sauti ya utulivu; ‘Unasita nini. Fyatua risasi yako, utakuwa umemuua mtu tu!’, kwa maana kwamba huwezi kuua fikra na mtazamo wa mwanamapinduzi na kweli kabisa mpaka leo fikra za Che zimedumu.

 

Katika historia yetu ya mapambano ya ukombozi tuna mifano mingi ya wanazuoni waliojitolea mhanga kwa sababu ya msimamo wao kuwa upande wa umma. Patrice Lumumba alitaka nchi yake iwe na uhuru kamili ili iweze kutumia utajiri wake kwa manufaa ya, siyo Wakongomani tu, bali kwa manufaa ya watu wa Afrika kwa sababu Lumumba alikuwa muumini wa Umajumui wa Afrika (Pan-Africanism). Aliuawa kikatili na wakala wa CIA.

 

Kwame Nkrumah wa Ghana aliuchambua na kuukusoa mfumo wa ukandamizaji wa kibeberu, akitaka kuleta Umoja wa Afrika kwa sababu aliamini kabisa kwamba wananchi wa vinchi vya Afrika wakiwa peke yao, hawataweza kumudu nguvu za kibeberu. Akapinduliwa na waliochukua madaraka kama mwanajeshi Afrika aliyekuwa na mawazo finyu, wakamsakama na kumdhalilisha. Chris Hani, ambaye alikuwa na dhamira ya kujenga Afrika Kusini mpya kwa mtazamo wa wavujajasho, aliuawa katika kipindi nyeti cha mpito kutoka ukaburu kwenda ukombozi. John Garang, kiongozi wa muda mrefu wa Sudan Kusini, alikuwa na msimamo wa kutokutenga na kuvunja nchi ya Sudan, badala yake alitaka Sudan Mpya. Umma wa Sudan Kusini na Sudan Kaskazini walikuwa nyuma yake. Inasemekana alikufa katika ajali ya helikopta. Sina hakika!

 

Muammar Gadaffi, mwanasiasa aliyekuwa na dhamira ya kuleta mabadiliko makubwa na yenye maslahi kwa nchi na jamii yake, ingawa baadaye alianza kuyumbayumba, aliuawa na majeshi ya mamluki yakisaidiwa na NATO. Kosa lake? Alikuwa na mpango kabambe wa kuvuna maji yaliyopo chini ya ardhi ya jangwa la Sahara na kueneza maji hayo katika eneo lote la Sahel. Lakini Rais wa Ufaransa, wakati ule Sarkozy, alikuwa na mpango wake mbadala. Alitaka Gadaffi akubali kutoa idhini ili mashirika ya Kifaransa wayavune maji hayo na kuyasafirisha kwenda Ufaransa kwa ajili ya kutengeneza maji ya chupa. Gadaffi alikataa katakata. Akasukiwa mpango, nchi yake ikavamiwa na hatimaye akauawa. Leo hii nchi ya Libya imesambaratishwa na hao hao waliojiita wakombozi. Nchi na vyombo vya habari vya Magharibi waliwakuza sana vibaraka hao na kuwatambua kama “wakombozi”, ili kuhalalisha maslahi yao ambayo yalikuwa sababu kuu ya kumpindua na kumuua Gadaffi.

BY ISSA SHIVI

GAZETI LA RAIMWEMA TOLEO NAMBA 351

MAY 7, 2014

WHY THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is

because the subject of money is taught at home, not in school. Most of us learn about money from

our parents. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say "Stay in school

and study hard." The child may graduate with excellent grades but with a poor person's financial

programming and mind-set which was learned while the child was young.

 

Money is not taught in schools. Schools focus on scholastic and professional skills, but not on

financial skills. This explains how smart bankers, doctors and accountants who earned excellent

grades in school may still struggle financially all of their lives. Our staggering national debt is due in

large part to highly educated politicians and government officials making financial decisions with

little or no training on the subject of money.

 

 

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their

profession successfully, but later find themselves struggling financially. They work harder, but don't

get ahead. What is missing from their education is not how to make money, but how to spend

money-what to do after you make it. It's called financial aptitude-what you do with the money once

you make it, how to keep people from taking it from you, how long you keep it, and how hard that

money works for you. Most people cannot tell why they struggle financially because they don't

understand cash flow. A person can be highly educated, professionally successful and financially

illiterate. These people often work harder than they need to because they learned how to work hard,

but not how to have their money work for them.

 

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful  is financial education. Money comes and goes,

but if you have the education about how money works,

you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is

because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not their greatest wealth, which is their education.

 

If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think

money will solve problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves

problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

Most people fail to realize that in life, it's not how much money you make, it's how much money you

keep. We have all heard stories of lottery winners who are poor, then suddenly rich, then poor again.

They win millions and are soon back to where they started. Or stories of professional athletes, who,

at the age of 24, are earning millions of dollars a year, and are sleeping under a bridge by age 34.

 

This is  chapter 3 of the book Rich Dad Poor Dad By Robert Kiyosaki.  Find it and read more

 

The one and only rule to getting rich is: You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know. It is Rule No. 1. It is the only rule. This may sound

absurdly simple, but most people have no idea how profound this rule is. Most people struggle

financially because they do not know the difference between……………. Find the book and read more

MONEY DONT SOLVE PROBLEMS, INTELLIGENCE DOES!

More money seldom solves someone's money problems. Intelligence solves problems, There is a

saying a friend of mine says over and over to people in debt.

"If you find you have dug yourself into a hole... stop digging."

As a child, my dad often told us that the Japanese were aware of three powers; "The power of the

sword, the jewel and the mirror."

 

The sword symbolizes the power of weapons. America has spent trillions of dollars on weapons and,

because of this, is the supreme military presence in the world. The jewel symbolizes the power of money.

 There is some degree of truth to the saying, "Remember the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules."

The mirror symbolizes the power of self-knowledge. This self-knowledge, according to Japanese

legend, was the most treasured of the three.

 

The poor and middle class all too often allow the power of money to control them. By simply getting

up and working harder, failing to ask themselves if what they do makes sense, they shoot themselves

in the foot as they leave for work every morning. By not fully understanding money, the vast majority

of people allow the awesome power of money to control them. The power of money is used against

them.

 

If they used the power of the mirror, they would have asked themselves, "Does this make sense?"

All too often, instead of trusting their inner wisdom, that genius inside of them, most people go along

with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it. They conform rather than question.

Often, they mindlessly repeat what they have been told.

 

It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists,

 the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of isolation, the fear of standing out,

the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. The fear of being different

prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

That is why the Japanese valued the power of the mirror the most, for it is only when

we as humans look into the mirror do we find truth. And the main reason that most people say

"Play it safe1' is out of fear. That goes for anything, be it sports, relationships, career, money.

It is that same fear, the fear of isolation that causes people to conform and not question commonly

accepted opinions or popular trends. "Your home is an asset." "Get a bill consolidation loan and get

out of debt." "Work harder." "It's a promotion." "Someday I'll be a vice president." "Save money."

"When ! get a raise, I'll buy us a bigger house." "Mutual funds are safe."

 

Many great financial problems are caused by going along with the crowd and trying to be like everyone else.

 Occasionally, we all need to look in the mirror and be true to our inner wisdom rather

than our fears.

DON’T FOLLOW THE CROWD - DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

FROM THE BOOK – RICH DAD POOR DAD BY ROBERT KIYOSAKI

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