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The 7 Most Common Ways People Get Rich

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readSep 27, 2023

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  1. Invest In Money-Generating Assets
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    Instead of investing your money in things like a car, a house or material goods, make your money work for you.
    - This is ultimately the way most rich people spend their money and make their money.
    - “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” — Warren Buffet
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    For further reading I recommend: Rich Dad Poor Dad — by Robert Kiyosaki & The 4-Hour Workweek — by Timothy Ferris.
  2. Bring More Value To The Table
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    For the same reasons as above, invest in your own improvement so you can offer more value which brings more money.
    - Books, courses, coaching, training, seminars, can all be a great source of improvement.
    - A Jack of all Trades will never be as valuable as a Master of One.
  3. Learn Sales
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    We sell something every day: Our ideas to friends, restaurant locations to partners, and who we are in job interviews.
    - Learning to sell gives you a huge advantage in every day life, but also allows you to help others generate money, which is the single most sought after skill in all job interviews.
  4. Network
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    The idea that you become the average of your 5 closest friends holds true and can be of great value if, and only if, those 5 people are further along where you want to go.
    - Always build relationships with people on a higher level than you. Just know that you…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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