Rich and the poor

Before I explain the difference between the rich and the poor, let me give you a complete overview of business ages. Let’s begin with the Agrarian Age. In the Agrarian Age, society was basically divided into two classes: the landowners and the people who worked on the land (the serfs).If you were a serf, there wasn’t much you could do about. Land ownership passed down through families and you were stuck with the status you were born into.
When the Industrial Age arrived, everything changed. Industrial Age was actually born in 1860.It was no longer agriculture that generated most of the wealth, but manufacturing. Suddenly, land was no longer the key to wealth. A factory occupied far less land than a sheep farm or a wheat farm. With the Industrial Age came a new kind of wealthy person; the self-made businessman. Wealth no longer depended on land-ownership and the family you were born into. Business acumen and factories were creating a new class of wealthy people. But it still required enormous capital to build a factory and start a business.
Then came the World Wide Web (in about 1989) and globalization. In fact, many economists say it began with the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Suddenly, everything changed again. Factories (or real estate) were no longer necessary to run a business. Of course, the Information Revolution didn’t begin in 1989.It began in 1444 when Gutenberg invented the printing press in Mainz, Germany. But the printing press (newspapers, magazines, paperbacks) belonged to the Industrial Age, not the Information Age. The printing press is a ‘one-to-many’ technology. The internet is a ‘many-to-many’ technology. And that was what changed in 1989.
As we moved from the Agrarian Age through the Industrial Age to the Information Age, there’s been a steady collapse of the barriers that kept one section of society wealthy and the other section poor. The only thing that makes the difference between the poor and the rich is the rich’ mindset, thinking, attitudes and the poor’ mindset, thinking and attitudes. The rich believe “I create my life” and the poor believe “life happens to me”. The rich play the money game to win. Their goal is to have massive wealth and abundance. The poor play to lose. Their goal is to have enough to pay bills. The middle class play for comfort and chances are they may not really be comfortable. The rich are focused and committed to being rich but the poor are uncommitted and unfocused.
The rich do not send mixed signals to the universe but the poor people are wavering in their desire and send mixed signals to the universe. Not willing to pay the price. The rich think big. They plan to serve a massive number of people but the poor think small. They think only on maintenance and sustenance. The rich take challenges. They manage risks and focus on opportunities but the poor always avoid anything that looks like trouble. The poor focus on the problems and not the fruits. The rich see people as assets. They leverage with others. They know how to recruit smart people to work for them. But the poor view people with suspect. They want to be alone. They are lone-rangers and short rangers. The rich say “it will work because I’ll make it work” but the poor say “what if it doesn’t work?” or more bluntly, “it won’t work”
The rich have confidence in themselves, their thoughts and ideas but the poor always doubt themselves, their thoughts and ideas. The rich expect to succeed through another way if they fall in their present business but the poor believe it would be catastrophic and suicidal to try and if they try at all and they fail, they lost all hopes. The rich will say “how can I afford it?.” They put on their thinking cap but the poor would say “I cannot afford it”. They put off their thinking cap.
The rich encourage their children to study so that they can own companies/businesses but the poor encourage their children to study and make good grades so they can find a good company to work for.  The rich would say to their children “the reason I must be rich is because I have you kids” but the poor would say “the reason I’m not rich is because I have you kids”. And they complain every time that they spend their hard earned money on their children. The rich see money as a blessing and as power and as freedom but the poor see money as evil and would say “money doesn’t matter”