I remember in school being told the story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. My schoolteacher thought it was a wonderful story of a romantic hero, a Kevin Costner type, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. My rich dad did not see Robin Hood as a hero. He called Robin Hood a crook.
我还记得在学校里曾听到的罗宾汉和他的绿林好汉的故事，我的老师认为罗宾汉是一个典型的浪漫英雄、一个劫富济贫的“大侠”。但我的富爸爸却认为罗宾汉不是英雄，他称罗宾汉为窃贼。
Robin Hood may be long gone, but his followers live on. How often I still hear people say, “Why don’t the rich pay for it?” Or “The rich should pay more in taxes and give it to the poor.”
罗宾汉已经死了很久了，但他的门徒甚多。我经常会听到这样的话：“为什么不让富人来承担”或“富人应缴更多的税让穷人得益。”
Lesson Four: The History of and The Power of Corporation
第四课：税收的历史和公司的力量
Again, to understand fully how things happen, we need to look at the historical perspective. We need to look at the history of taxes. Although my highly educated dad was an expert on the history of education, my rich dad fashioned himself as an expert on the history of taxes.
要讲清这个道理，我们需要回顾一下历史——税收的历史。 我的受过高等教育的爸爸是历史学方面的专家，而富爸爸则使自己成为了一名受欢迎的税收历史方面的专家。
It is this idea of Robin Hood, or taking from the rich to give to the poor that has caused the most pain for the poor and the middle class. The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal. The real reality is that the rich are not taxed. It’s the middle class who pays for the poor, especially the educated upper-income middle class.
而今，罗宾汉劫富济贫的想法却成了穷人和中产阶级最大的隐痛。由于罗宾汉的理想，中产阶级现在承担着沉重的税负。富人实际上并未被征税，是中产阶级尤其是受过教育的高收人中产阶级在为穷人支付税金。
In 1874, England made income tax a permanent levy on its citizens. In 1913, an income tax became permanent in the United States with the adoption of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. At one time, Americans were anti-tax. It had been the excessive tax on tea that led to the famous Tea Party in Boston Harbor, an incident that helped ignite the Revolutionary War. It took approximately 50 years in both England and ‘? the United States to sell the idea of a regular income tax.
1874年，英格兰规定纳税是国民的长期义务。1913年，美国通过了宪法修正案（第16条），规定了所得税的征收合法。美国人曾经反对纳税，过重的茶税引发了波士顿港的茶党成立和独立战争的爆发。英国和美国花了几乎50年来培养公众的所得税纳税意识。
What these historical dates fail to reveal is that both of these taxes were initially levied against only the rich. It was this point that rich dad wanted Mike and me to understand. He explained that the idea of taxes was made popular, and accepted by the majority, by telling the poor and the middle class that taxes were created only to punish the rich. This is how the masses voted for the law, and it became constitutionally legal. Although it was intended to punish the rich, in reality it wound up punishing the very people who voted for it, the poor and middle class.
这些税最初只是针对富人，这一点富爸爸希望迈克和我明白。他解释说纳税的方法是由大众制定的并经多数人同意，它要让穷人和中产阶级看到税收是为了惩罚有钱人，因此，大众投了赞同票，并将依法纳税写人了宪法。而初衷是惩罚有钱人的税收，在现实中却惩罚了对它投赞同票的中产阶级和穷人。
Rich dad explained to Mike and me that in England and America originally, there were no taxes. Occasionally there were temporary taxes levied in order to pay for wars. The king or the president would put the word out and ask everyone to “chip in.” Taxes were levied in Britain for the fight against Napoleon from 1799 to 1816, and in America taxes were levied to pay for the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.
富爸爸告诉迈克和我，早期的英国和美国是不须纳税的，只有一些为战争而临时征收的税，国王和总统称之为“纳捐”。英国在1799年到1816年间为了与拿破仑作战而征税，美国则在1861年到1865年间为了应付内战而征税。
My educated dad sincerely believed that government should help people. He loved John F. Kennedy and especially the idea of the Peace Corps. He loved the idea so much that both he and my mom worked for the Peace Corps training volunteers to go to Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. He always strived for additional grants and increases in his budget so he could hire more people, both in his job with the Education Department and in the Peace Corps. That was his job.
我受过教育的爸爸真诚地相信政府应该帮助人民。他热爱并且崇拜约翰。肯尼迪，尤其推崇肯尼迪的和平队计划。他是如此推崇这个计划以至于他和妈妈都在和平队工作，培训去马来西亚、泰国和菲律宾的志愿者。他总在寻求拨款和增加预算以便能雇更多的人为他所在的教育部和和平队工作。
“Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew,” said rich dad. “Your dad and I are exactly opposite. He’s a government bureaucrat, and I am a capitalist. We get paid, and our success is measured on opposite behaviors. He gets paid to spend money and hire people. The more he spends and the more people he hires, the larger his organization becomes. In the government, the larger his organization, the more he is respected. On the other hand, within my organization, the fewer people I hire and the less money I spend, the more I am respected by my investors. That’s why I don’t like government people. They have different objectives from most business people. As the government grows, more and more tax dollars will be needed to support it.”
“一旦政府尝到了钱的滋味，它的胃口就变大了。”富爸爸说：“你爸和我在这一点上是对立的。他是政府官员，而我是资本家，我们都得到了报酬，但我们对成功的衡量标准却相反。他的工作是花钱和雇人，他花的钱越多和雇的人越多，他的机构就会越大。在政府中，谁的机构越大，谁就更受尊敬。而在我的组织中，我雇的人越少，花的钱越少，我就越能受到投资者的尊敬。这就是我为何不喜欢政府官员的原因，他们与大多数生意人的目标不同。随着政府规模的扩大，政府需要征收更多的税以维持政府的运营。”
Yet, when you study the history of taxes, an interesting perspective emerges. As I said, the passage of taxes was only possible because the masses believed in the Robin Hood theory of economics, which was to take from the rich and give to everyone else. The problem was that the government’s appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept “trickling down.”
然而，当你研究税收历史时，一个有趣的现象产生了。如前所述，税之所以被接受是因为大众相信罗宾汉的经济理论，即劫富济贫。问题是政府的社会保障体系及各项开支越来越大，以致于中产阶级也要被征税，且税收水平不断攀升。
From the time I was about 10 years old, I would hear from my rich dad that government workers were a pack of lazy thieves, and from my poor dad I would hear how the rich were greedy crooks who should be made to pay more taxes. Both sides have valid points. It was difficult to go to work for one of the biggest capitalists in town and come home to a father who was a prominent government leader. It was not easy knowing who to believe.
从我10岁起，我就从富爸爸那儿听说政府人员是偷懒的窃贼，而穷爸爸却说富人是贪婪的强盗，富人应该交更多的税。我相信双方都有其正确的地方，然而，为镇上最大的资本家工作和生活在作为杰出政府官员的爸爸家，这两件事绞在一起显然变得越来越难以协调了。
The rich, on the other hand, saw an opportunity. They do not play by the same set of rules. As I’ve stated, the rich already knew about corporations, which became popular in the days of sailing ships. The rich created the corporation as a vehicle to limit their risk to the assets of each voyage. The rich put their money into a corporation to finance the voyage. The corporation would then hire a crew to sail to the New World to look for treasures. If the ship was lost, the crew lost their lives, but the loss to the rich would be limited only to the money they invested for that particular voyage. The diagram that follows shows how the corporate structure sits outside your personal income statement and balance sheet.
另一方面，富人则看到了机会，他们不按同一套规则来运作。正如我所说的，他们非常了解公司的魔力，而公司在商品经济时代正变得日益普遍。富人创办了公司来限定其资产的风险，就像用一条船去航行，富人把钱投人到公司这条“船”去航行，公司则雇一批职员（船员）把船驶向“新世界”去寻宝。一旦船沉了，船员会丧生，但富人损失的仅限于他投资的金钱。
(through personal corporation)
（通过个人企业）
It is the knowledge of the power of the legal structure of the corporation that really gives the rich a vast advantage over the poor and the middle class. Having two fathers teaching me, one a socialist and the other a capitalist, I quickly began to realize that the philosophy of the capitalist made more financial sense to me. It seemed to me that the socialists ultimately penalized themselves, due to their lack of financial education. No matter what the “Take from the rich” crowd came up with, the rich always found a way to outsmart them. That is how taxes were eventually levied on the middle class. The rich outsmarted the intellectuals, solely because they understood the power of money, a subject not taught in schools.
有关企业的法律知识给予了富人超出穷人和中产阶级的极大优势。由于有两个爸爸在教我，一个是政府官员，另一个是企业家，我很快便认识到企业家的哲学对我积聚财富更有意义。看起来大多数人是在惩罚他们自己，由于他们缺少财务知识，无论“劫富”的呼声多高，富人总有办法从中脱身，这就是为何税最终总是落到了中产阶级头上的原因。富人胜过那些聪明的受过教育的人，只因为他们明白钱的力量，这是学校不曾教过的科目。
Assets -> Income
资产变成收入
Is reduced/diminished by expenses
缩减开支
How the Rich Play the Game
富人是怎么玩这个游戏的
How did the rich outsmart the intellectuals? Once the “Take from the rich” tax was passed, cash started flowing into government coffers. Initially, people were happy. Money was handed out to government workers and the rich. It went to government workers in the form of jobs and pensions. It went to the rich via their factories receiving government contracts.
有钱人是怎样胜过某些有专业知识的人的呢？一旦“劫富”的税法被通过，钱便开始流入政府。起初人们很高兴，可钱却被政府分配给了雇员和富人。税金通过工作和养老金的形式发放给了政府雇员，通过政府采购的形式付给了富人。
True capitalists used their financial knowledge to simply find a way to escape. They headed back to the protection of a corporation. A corporation protects the rich. But what many people who have never formed a corporation do not know is that a corporation is not really a thing. A corporation is merely a file folder with some legal documents in it, sitting in some attorney’s office registered with a state government agency. It’s not a big building with the name of the corporation on it. It’s not a factory or a group of people. A corporation is merely a legal document that creates a legal body without a soul. The wealth of the rich was once again protected. Once again, the use of corporations became popular — once the permanent income laws were passed — because the income-tax rate of the corporation was less than the individual income-tax rates. In addition, as described earlier, certain expenses could be paid with pre-tax dollars within the corporation.
真正的资本家则利用他们的财务知识逃脱了。他们借助于公司的保护逃避税收。公司的确保护富人，但是许多从未建立过公司的人却不明白这个道理，因为公司并不一定是一个真正的实体，公司可以只是一些符合法律要求的文件，在政府注册后就被放在了律师的办公室里。公司并不意味着要有刻着公司名称的大楼、厂房和雇员，它可以只是一个没有灵魂的法律实体，但富人的财富在这里得到保护。一旦所得税法被通过，成立公司就会流行起来了，因为企业所得税率低于个人收人所得税率。此外，公司的某些支出可以在税前获得抵减。
The government became a large pool of money, but the problem was the fiscal management of that money. There really is no recirculation. In other words, the government policy, if you were a government bureaucrat, was to avoid having excess money. If you failed to spend your allotted funding, you risked losing it in the next budget. You would certainly not be recognized for being efficient. Business people, on the other hand, are rewarded for having excess money and are recognized for their efficiency.
政府成了一个巨大的钱库，但问题是还有预算管理，这不是一个自动循环重复的系统。换句话说，政府的政策是，如果你是一个政府官员，就应避免拥有过多的钱；如果你没有用完预算资金，在下次预算中你就有被削减掉这些钱的风险。你不会因为有节余而被认为有效率并得到奖励；为避免被削减预算资金，政府雇员会大量花钱和雇人，虽然这很可能是在浪费。而商人，则因为有节余而被认为有效率。
As this cycle of growing government spending continued, the demand for money increased and the “Tax the rich” idea was now being adjusted to include lower-income levels, down to the very people who voted it in, the poor and the middle class.
随着政府支出的不断扩大，对钱的需求也越来越大，于是“劫富”的想法不再适用，税赋也落到了中产阶级和穷人头上。
Average Americans today work five to six months for the government before they make enough to cover their taxes. In my opinion, that is a long time. The harder you work, the more you pay the government. That is why I believe that the idea of “Take from the rich” backfired on the very people who voted it in.
今天的美国人每年要为政府工作5—6个月，他们得挣出足够的税钱。在我看来，这真是太长了。他们工作得越努力，付给政府的就越多，这也使我更加确信“劫富”想法的人到头来是对付了他们自己。
This war between the haves and have-nots has been going on for hundreds of years. It is the “Take from the rich” crowd versus the rich. The battle is waged whenever and wherever laws are made. The battle will go on forever. The problem is, the people who lose are the uninformed. The ones who get up every day and diligently go to work and pay taxes. If they only understood the way the rich play the game, they could play it too. Then, they would be on their way to their own financial independence. This is why I cringe every time I hear a parent advise their children to go to school, so they can find a safe, secure job. An employee with a safe, secure job, without financial aptitude, has no escape.
有产者和无产者之间的争斗已经进行了几百年了，它是劫富的人与富人之间的斗争。 任何时候、任何地方只要制定法律，就会发生这种斗争。斗争还会持续下去，吃亏的人一定是无知者，即那些每天起来勤奋工作并不假思索地付税的人。但是如果他们明白了富人玩的游戏，他们也会来玩，这样他们就可以实现经济自立。每次当我听到父母劝说孩子去学校以便找个安定的工作时，我就会感到忧虑，因为一个有着稳定工作的雇员，若没有财务头脑，仍无法躲开财务上的陷阱。
Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don’t simply comply, they react. They have the money, power and intent to change things. They do not just sit there and voluntarily pay more taxes. They search for ways to minimize their tax burden. They hire smart attorneys j and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes. They have the resources to effect change.
每当人们想惩罚富人时，富人不仅不会接受反而要进行反击，他们有钱、有能力、有愿望去改变处境。他们决不会坐视不管，付出高税，他们会想办法把税赋降至最低。他们雇佣聪明的律师和会计师，他们说服政客们改变法律或是钻法律的漏洞，他们有能力扭转乾坤。
The Tax Code of the United States also allows other ways to save on taxes. Most of these vehicles are available to anyone, but it is the rich who usually look for them because they are minding their own business. For example, “1031” is jargon for Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, which allows a seller to delay paying taxes on a piece of real estate; that is sold for a capital gain through an exchange for a more expensive piece of real estate. Real estate is one investment vehicle that allows such a great tax advantage. As long as you keep trading up in value, you I will not be taxed on the gains, until you liquidate. People who do not take advantage of these tax savings offered legally are missing a great opportunity to build their asset columns.
美国的税法允许人们采用合理的方法避税，任何人均可运用这些方法，但也只有富人才常常使用这些方法，因为他们关心自己的事业。例如，（国内收入法）第1013款，就允许销售者对“为购买更贵的房地产而卖出现有房地产时”所获得的资本利得推迟纳税。按照该规定房地产成了具有税收优惠的投资工具，只要你不断进行上述价值交换，你就无须纳税，直到你将房地产变现。不利用这些合法避税手段的人会失去很多增加他们资产项的机会。
The poor and middle class do not have the same resources. They sit there and let the government’s needles enter their arm and allow the blood donation to begin. Today, I am constantly shocked at the number of people who pay more taxes, or take fewer deductions, simply because they are afraid of the government. And I do know how frightening and intimidating a government tax agent can be. I have had friends who have had their businesses shut down and destroyed, only to find out it was a mistake on the part of the government. I realize all that. But the price of working from January to mid-May is a high price to pay for that intimidation. My poor dad never fought back. My rich dad didn’t either. He just played the game smarter, and he did it through corporations — the biggest secret of the rich.
穷人和中产阶级的能力不同，所以他们只能坐在那儿上他们该上的税。现实情况令我深深震惊：竟有如此多的人在支付高税的同时却很少想到要使用合理合法的避税手段。我有些开公司的朋友，他们发现要面对各式各样的税种，深感恐惧，于是放弃了各自的事业。 尽管我知道这些，但也只好一年到头从1月到5月中旬都在为政府打工，这价码太高了。穷爸爸对此从不反抗，富爸爸也不反抗——但他做得更聪明，他利用公司——富人的最大秘密，来达到他的目的。
The first lesson of having money work for me, as opposed to working for money, is really all about power. If you work for money, you give the power up to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.
让钱为我工作而不是我为钱工作，这是真正的力量。如果你为钱工作，你就把力量给了雇主；如果钱为你工作，你就能控制这种力量。
You may remember the first lesson I learned from my rich dad. I was a little boy of 9 who had to sit and wait for him to choose to talk to me. I often sat in his office waiting for him to “get to me.” He was ignoring me on purpose. He wanted me to recognize his power and desire to have that power for myself one day. For all the years I studied J and learned from him, he always reminded me that knowledge was power. And with money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiply. Without that knowledge, the world pushes you around. Rich dad constantly reminded Mike and me that the biggest bully was not the boss or the supervisor, but the tax man. The tax man will always take more if you let him.
你可能还记得我从富爸爸那里学到的第一课，那时我只是一个9岁的孩子，必须乖乖地坐着等他决定什么时候与我谈话，我坐在他的办公室里等他叫我，可他却故意忽视我。他想让我认识到他的力量并希望有一天我自己也能具有这种力量。跟他学习的这么多年，他总在提醒我知识就是力量，而且钱越多，需要的知识也就越多，没有知识，世界会牵着你走。富爸爸经常提醒我和迈克，最大的敌人不是老板或监工，而是税赋，税赋总想从你那里拿走更多，如果你允许的话。
Once we had this knowledge of the power of money working for us, he wanted us to be financially smart and not let bullies push us around. You need to know the law and how the system works. If you’re ignorant, it is easy to be bullied. If you know what you’re talking about, you have a fighting chance. That is why he paid so much for smart tax accountants and attorneys. It was less expensive to pay them than pay the government. His best lesson to me, which I have used most of my life, is “Be smart and you won’t be pushed around as much.” He knew the law because he was a law-abiding citizen. He knew the law because it was expensive to not know the law. “If you know you’re right, you’re not afraid of fighting back.” Even if you are taking on Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men.
当我们掌握了让钱为我们工作的道理，富爸爸就希望我们精于计算而不让钱牵着我们走，此外，我们还需要了解法律。如果你对法律一无所知，你将很容易做错事；如果你了解法律，你就可以充分利用法律赋予你的权实现自己的事业。这也是富爸爸为什么要高薪雇来聪明的税务师和律师的原因了——给他们的钱要。 比付给政府的少得多。“精于计算你就不会被别人牵着转”是他给我上的最好的一课，我几乎一生都在受用。富爸爸了解法律，因为他要做一个守法的公民，还因为他知道不懂法律的代价是多么的昂贵。“如果你知道你是对的，就不会害怕受到攻击”，哪怕你面对的是“罗宾汉”和他的“绿林好汉”们。
As a young boy, I did not understand what rich dad meant by owning my own corporation. It was an idea that seemed impossible, and intimidating. Although I was excited by the idea, my youth would not let me envision the possibility that grownups would someday work for a company I would own.
作为一个小孩子，我不明白宫爸爸所说的拥有自己公司的含义，这似乎是一个吓人的、遥不可及的念头。虽然我为这话激动，可我的年纪不允许我去幻想这种可能，即：大人们有一天会为我的公司工作。
When I told my rich dad of my father’s advice, he only chuckled. “Why not own the ladder?” was all he said.
当我对富爸爸讲了我爸爸的建议时，他笑了，“为什么不当梯子的主人？”这就是他全部的话。
The point is, if not for my rich dad, I would have probably followed my educated dad’s advice. It was merely the occasional reminder of my rich dad that kept the idea of owning my own corporation alive and kept me on a different path. By the time I was 15 or 16, I knew I was not going to continue down the path my educated dad was recommending. I did not know how I was going to do it, but I was determined not to head in the direction most of my classmates were heading. That decision changed my life.
事实上，如果不是富爸爸，我就准备接受我爸爸的建议了。正是富爸爸不时地提醒，使我拥有自己公司的念头从来未曾消失，并使我走上了另一条道路。当我十五六岁时，虽然当时我不知道我将怎么做，但我知道我将不会继续走我爸爸建议的那条路了，也就是我的大多数同学要走的路，这个决定改变了我的一生。
My highly educated dad always encouraged me to seek a good job with a strong corporation. He spoke of the virtues of “working your way up the corporate ladder.” He didn’t understand that, by relying solely on a paycheck from a corporate employer, I would be a docile cow ready for milking.
我受过高等教育的爸爸总是鼓励我去一家大公司找个好工作。他的价值观是：“顺着公司的梯子，一步步往上爬”。他不知道，仅仅依赖雇主的工资，就永远只能是一头乖乖待挤的奶牛。
Many employers feel that advising their workers to mind their own business is bad for business. I am sure it can be for certain individuals. But for me, focusing on my own business, developing assets, made me a better employee.
许多雇主感到建议雇员关注他们自己的事业对其本职工作不利。对某些人来说，可以肯定的确如此，但对我而言，关注我自己的事业，增加资产，却使我成为一名更好的雇员。
It was not until I was in my mid-20s that my rich dad’s advice began to make more sense. I was just out of the Marine Corps and working for Xerox. I was making a lot of money, but every time I looked at my paycheck, I was always disappointed. The deductions were so large, and the more I worked, the greater the deductions. As I became more successful, my bosses talked about promotions and raises. It was flattering, but I could hear my rich dad asking me in my ear: “Who are you working for? Who are you making rich?”
我20多岁时，才开始真正实施富爸爸的建议。我当时刚离开海军陆战队去了施乐公司，我挣了许多钱，但每次当我看着工资单时，我都感到失望，扣除额是如此之大，而且我越是努力工作，扣的就越多。当我更为成功时，我的老板们谈到了升职和加薪，此时，我仿佛听到富爸爸在问我“你为谁工作？你使谁富了？”
In 1974, while still an employee for Xerox, I formed my first corporation and began “minding my own business.” There were already a few assets in my asset column, but now I was determined to focus on making it bigger. Those paychecks with all the deductions made all the years of my rich dad’s advice make total sense. I could see the future if I followed my educated dad’s advice.
1974年，当时我仍是施乐的雇员，我建立了我的第一个企业并且开始“关注自己的事业”。我的资产项中的资产并不多，但我决心使它增加，这些年来挣着被扣减的工资使我完全明白了富爸爸的建议。如果我继续听从我爸爸的建议，我已经可以看到我的将来。
In less than three years, I was making more in my own little corporation, which was a real estate holding company, than I was making at Xerox. And the money I was making in my asset column, in my own corporation, was money working for me. Not me pounding on doors selling copiers. My rich dad’s advice made much more sense. Soon the cash flow from my properties was so strong that my company bought me my first Porsche. My fellow Xerox salespeople thought I was spending my commissions. I wasn’t. I was investing my commissions in assets.
在不到三年的时间中，我在自己的小房地产公司里挣到的钱比在施乐挣到的更多。而且我在自己的企业中挣到的钱，是完全为我所用的，这不像我去敲门推销施乐机器时所挣的钱，富爸爸的话越来越有用了。不久我用我公司的收人买了我的第一辆保时捷，施乐的同事认为我是用工资买的，可事实上，我正在不断地把工资投资于资产项，而用资产项为我生产出来的钱购买我想要的东西。
I now had a purpose. I came in early and worked diligently, amassing as much money as possible so I could begin investing in real estate. Hawaii was just set to boom, and there were 4 fortunes to be made. The more I realized we were in the beginning stages of a boom, the more Xerox machines I sold. The more I sold, the more money I made, and, of course, the more deductions there were from my paycheck. It was inspiring. I wanted out of the trap of being an employee so badly that I worked harder, not less.
我现在有了目标，我得起早贪黑勤奋工作，好攒钱开始房地产投资。夏威夷正在开发，大有发财机会。当我意识到我们刚开始繁荣后，我决定进行房地产投资。为了积累资产基础，我卖出的施乐的机器更多了。因为我卖的越多，挣的钱也就越多，当然，我挣的越多，扣的也就越多，这可不是件振奋人心的事，但我可以通过努力工作跳出作为一名雇员的陷阱。
By 1978, I was consistently one of the top five salespeople in sales, often No. 1. I badly wanted out of the rat race.
到1978年，我的销售业绩总是列在公司前五名，并常是第一名，尽管我一再受到公司的嘉奖，但我仍想跳出这场“老鼠赛跑”。
My money was working hard to make more money. Each dollar in my asset column was a great employee, working hard to make more employees and buy the boss a new Porsche with before-tax dollars. I began to work harder for Xerox. The plan was working, and my Porsche was the proof.
我的钱为我挣回更多的钱，在我的资产中，每一块钱都是一名雇员，它们努力工作并带回更多的雇员，而且还能用税前收人为我购买新的保时捷。我仍在继续努力为施乐工作，但同时，我的计划也在按步就班地进行着，保时捷就是证明。
By using the lessons I learned from my rich dad, I was able to get out of the “proverbial rat race” of being an employee at an early age. It was made possible because of the strong financial knowledge I had acquired through these lessons. Without this financial knowledge, which I call financial IQ, my road to financial independence would have been much more difficult. I now teach others through financial seminars in the hope that I may share my knowledge with them. Whenever I do my talks, I remind people that financial IQ is made up of knowledge from four broad areas of expertise.
通过运用富爸爸教我的那些课程，我能够在早期就走出“老鼠赛跑”咒语，而成功的原因就归功于我从那些课程中所学到的财务知识。若没有这些被我称为财商（财务智商，Financial I。Q。）的知识——我的经济自立之路将会困难得多。我现在在研讨班上把这些知识教给其他人，我希望别人能和我一起分享这些知识。无论何时我谈到这些知识，我都提醒人们：财商是由四个方面的专门知识所构成的：
1. is accounting. What I call financial literacy. A vital skill if you want to build an empire. The more money you are responsible for, the more accuracy is required, or the house comes tumbling down. This is the left brain side, or the details. Financial literacy is the ability to read and understand financial statements. This ability allows you to identify the strengths and weaknesses of any business.
第一是会计，也就是我说的财务知识。如果你想建立一个自己的帝国的话，财务知识是非常重要的技能。你管理的钱越多，就越需要精确，否则这大厦就会倒下来。这是左脑要处理的，或者说是细节。财务知识能帮助你读懂财务报表，借助这种能力你还能够辨别业务的优势和弱势。
2. is investing. What I call the science of money making money. This involves strategies and formulas. This is the right brain side, or the creative side.
第二是投资，我称为钱生钱的科学。投资涉及到策略和方案，这是右脑要做的事，或者说是创造。
3. is understanding markets. The science of supply and demand. There is a need to know the “technical” aspects of the market, which is emotion driven; the Tickle Me Elmo doll during Christmas 1996 is a case of a technical or emotion-driven market. The other market factor is the “fundamental” or the economic sense of an investment. Does an investment make sense or does it not make sense based on the current market conditions.
第三是了解市场，它是供给与需求的科学。这要求了解受感情驱动的市场的“技术面”。 1996年圣诞节的Tickle Me Elmo 玩具娃娃大获成功就是一个受技术与情感影响的市场的最佳佐证。市场的另一个因素是“基本面”，或者说是一项投资的经济意义。 一项投资究竟有无意义最终取决于当前的市场状况。
Many people think the concepts of investing and understanding the market are too complex for kids. They fail to see that kids know those subjects intuitively. For those not familiar with the Elmo doll, it was a Sesame Street character that was highly touted to the kids just before Christmas. Most all kids wanted one, and put it at the top of their Christmas list. Many parents wondered if the company intentionally held the product off the market, while continuing to advertise it for Christmas. A panic set in due to high demand and lack of supply. Having no dolls to buy in the stores, scalpers saw an opportunity to make a small fortune from desperate parents. The unlucky parents who did not find a doll were forced to buy another toy for Christmas. The incredible popularity of the Tickle Me Elmo doll made no sense to me, but it serves as an excellent example of supply and demand economics. The same thing goes on in the stock, bond, real estate and baseball-card markets.
许多人认为投资和了解市场对于孩子来说太复杂了，他们不知道孩子们凭直觉就能弄懂它们。当父母们还不熟悉Elmo玩具娃娃时，圣诞节前街上的变化就已经给孩子们带来了消息，大部分孩子都想要一个Elmo娃娃，而且把它列在圣诞节礼单的头一项，于是需求巨大而供给不足的恐慌发生了。商店里没有Elmo娃娃卖，投机者从绝望的父母那儿看到了发笔大财的机会，因为这些未买到玩具的父母将不得不为孩子们改买另一样玩具。于是Tickle Me Elmo娃娃以难以置信的火爆迅速造就了一个市场神话。虽然这一切与我无关，但它却可作为供求关系的一个很好的例子。同样的事也同样发生在股票、债券、房地产和棒球卡市场上。
1. Tax advantages: A corporation can do so many things that an individual cannot. Like pay for expenses before it pays taxes. That is a whole area of expertise that is so exciting, but not necessary to get into unless you have sizable assets or a business.
1、税收优惠。公司可以做许多个人无法做的事，像税前的费用开支。这是一个如此令人激动的专业领域，但在你没有足够的资产或业务之前不必进人。
4. is the law. For instance, utilizing a corporation wrapped around the technical skills of accounting, investing and markets can aid explosive growth. An individual with the knowledge of the tax advantages and protection provided by a corporation can get rich so much faster than someone who is an employee or a small-business sole proprietor. It’s like the difference between someone walking and someone flying. The difference is profound when it comes to long-term wealth.
第四是法律。它可以帮助你有效运营一个进入会计、投资和市场领域的企业并实现爆炸性地增长。了解税收优惠政策和公司法律的人能比雇员和小业主更快致富。这就像一个人在走，而另一个人却在飞，若从长远看这种差距就更大了。
Employees earn and get taxed and they try to live on what is left. A corporation earns, spends everything it can, and is taxed on anything that is left. It’s one of the biggest legal tax loopholes that the rich use. They’re easy to set up and are not expensive if you own investments that are producing good cash flow. For example; by owning your own corporation — vacations are board meetings in Hawaii. Car payments, insurance, repairs are company expenses. Health club membership is a company expense. Most restaurant meals are partial expenses. And on and on — but do it legally with pre-tax dollars.
雇员挣钱、纳税，并靠剩下来的东西为生；一个企业挣钱，花掉它的钱，而只对剩下来的东西缴税。这是富人钻的最大的法律的空子，如果你有能带来现金流人的投资，公司便可轻松、廉价地运营。例如，若拥有自己的公司，夏威夷的董事会就是你的假期，买车以及随之而来的车的保险和修理费也特是企业支出，健身俱乐部会员费会是企业支出，大部分的餐费更是企业的支出，而且它们都在税前被合法支付。
It is not the purpose of this book to go into the specifics of owning a corporation. But I will say that if you own any kind of legitimate assets, I would consider finding out more about the benefits and protection offered by a corporation as soon as possible. There are many books written on the subject that will detail the benefits and even walk you through the steps necessary to set up a corporation. One book in particular, Inc. and Grow Rich provides a wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations.
本书的目的并不是具体教你如何拥有一个公司。但我仍要说，你拥有的任何一种合法资产，我都可以考虑找出以企业形式拥有同等资产时所能享受到的更多的好处和保护。有很多书写过这个题目，会详细到告诉你建立一个企业的必要步骤和能享受的优惠。有一本书叫《股份有限公司和致富》，就对私营公司的能量方面提供了很好的视点。
2. Protection from lawsuits. We live in a litigious society. Everybody wants a piece of your action. The rich hide much of their wealth using vehicles such as corporations and trusts to protect their assets from creditors. When someone sues a wealthy individual they are often met with layers of legal protection, and often find that the wealthy person actually owns nothing. They control everything, but own nothing. The poor and middle class try to own everything and lose it to the government or to fellow citizens who like to sue the rich. They learned it from the Robin Hood story. Take from the rich, give to the poor.
2。、在诉讼中获得保护。我们生活在一个爱打官司的社会中。富人用公司和信托来隐藏部分财富，当一些人起诉富人时，他们经常遇到法律对富人的保护，并发现这富人其实一无所有。奇怪吗？他们控制着一切，但一无所有。穷人和中产阶级尽力去拥有一切，但最后却不得不支付给政府和那些乐于起诉有钱人的小市民们，这些小市民们也从罗宾汉的故事中学到了劫富济贫。
2. Spend
2。 花钱
Financial IQ is actually the synergy of many skills and talents. But I would say it is the combination of the four technical skills listed above that make up basic financial intelligence. If you aspire to great wealth, it is the combination of these skills that will greatly amplify an individual’s financial intelligence.
财商实际上是技巧和才能的结合。但我仍说它由以上所列的四项技能综合组成。如果你想致富，上述的组合将大大增加你个人的财务能力。
The People Who Work for Corporations
穷人：穷人给富人打工
The Rich People With Corporations
富人：创立公司让别人给自己打工
1. Earn
1。挣钱
In summary
总结：
As part of your overall financial strategy, we strongly recommend owning your own corporation wrapped around your assets.
为了整体的财务策略，我们强烈建议你创立于自己资产相关的公司。
3. Pay Taxes
3。 交税
3. Spend
3。 花钱
1. Earn
1。 挣钱
2. Pay Taxes
2。 交税
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