"ASSETS PUT MONEY IN YOUR POCKET, WHETHER YOU WORK OR NOT, LIABILITIES TAKE MONEY FROM YOUR POCKET"
-ROBERT KIYOSAKI.
Cash
in a bank deposit is earning you interest straightforwardly. The drawback is
the premium settled up by banks. These days isn't even keeping up with
inflation, but cash is still a priority. Apple The company has over 200 billion
in cash reserves. That's liquidity. So why do rich people keep such a good
portion of their wealth in cash reserves? Two reasons.
One can
access any opportunity that presents itself, which is self-explanatory. Looking
at the situation objectively, the arrangement of your fantasies is before you,
and you don't have the means to exploit it. This is one of the primary
motivations behind why rich individuals set aside money.
The
second reason is that they can get higher returns straight from cash deals. Besides
the fact that individuals offer better evaluation for cash, however, you can
likewise loan cash with an exorbitant premium.
This practice is called peer tope lending. Assuming you're coming up short on pay and ready to face the challenge, there are a lot of stages out there that proposition distributed loaning administrations. Essentially, you loan individuals your cash and they take care of you with a premium. The average bank is offering under 1% interest on your deposit while peer-to-peer lending fluctuates from seven to as high as 15 to 20%. But please keep in mind that if something is too good to be true, it probably is to maintain a rational mind whenever investing in.
Real Estate
We
personally love real estate. Why? There are two reasons.
One. Lease
cash is coming in every month with a base measure of work. On the off chance
that you're a piece more intelligent, you can make the most of the innovation
enhancements happening at present. And instead of traditional rents do short-term
rentals for higher yields, but it isn't as passive.
Two. The
subsequent contention is appreciation. Populace numbers are going up, even with
the Covid episode and that's only the tip of the iceberg more individuals need
a spot to live or lease. The interest is expanding. So, prices for properties
are constantly going up and they forever will make real estate. One of the best
investments one could possibly make in terms of real estate assets you have.
1). In
Residential buildings, people live in your properties and pay you to rent.
2). Office
buildings. People work on your property and pay you to rent.
3). Commercial
buildings. Businesses use your space to sell stuff and pay you to rent.
4). Lands, which can be cultivated developed, or
even left for appreciation.
5).
Super important. The house you live in isn't a resource. It's an obligation. It
costs you cash to live in it while it isn't placing any new cash in your
pocket.
Bonds
We're going to give you the Eli five version of this. When governments or businesses might need cash, they can issue up something called bonds, which get sold to the interest investors through these securities, the public authority, or the business commitments to pay the individual, purchasing the securities a specific measure of cash consistently. By and large, bonds have an expiry date on them from one month if 30 years, these are really protected speculations since they're generally supported by the public authority. But as you probably know, by now, low risk in business translates to low rewards as well. Bonds are usually in the 3% yearly return range, which is better than what most banks offer, but not high enough to get a beginner investor excited. When the bond reaches its end, the principal amount is returned to the investor. The main ways people buy bonds are directly from the treasury department or two through a brokerage firm.
Stocks
are not generally so convoluted as those wall road firms make you accept. Stocks
are an easy way for you to own a percentage of a publicly traded business. If the
business issues 10 million shares and you own 1 million of those shares, you're
a 10% owner in the business. This incredible breakthrough in financial
instruments has allowed the average person to own a stake in some of the most
lucrative companies of our day with very low entry barriers. Here's how much
you need to pay to purchase one and share it with these companies. There are
many platforms out there that allow you to purchase this type of share and
invest it in the stock market. The most common and trending platforms for
buying and trading stocks right now are plus 500 Etro trade 24, and Robin hood
Revolute. And so on, by the way, we're not affiliated with any of these
companies, although they should reach out since it would be a great case,
study, breaking down how to make money using these platforms.
Mutual and Index Funds.
On
the off chance that stocks permit you to buy partakes in an organization,
individually shared assets and record reserves unite in different
organizations. So, you're buying into the entire basket of companies. Why is
this better? Essentially, you're more enhanced. Thus, it's a more secure
venture to make. Measurably, record reserves are the best performing resource,
class. The five most popular index funds are the following in no order.
Fidelity is zero large-cap index Vanguard, S and P 500 ETF, S P D R S and P 500
ETF trust IHAs core S and P 500 ETF and Schwab S and P 500 index fund. If you
want to start buying stocks one at a time, you're statistically more likely to
screw up. You're not going to be one of those miracle traders that beats the
market year over year.
You
don't have that sort of data. Also, it's really confounding to attempt to
contend with the huge young men. That is where record subsidies come in. S and
P 500 bring together the best 500 performing companies. When a company falls
off the top 500, it gets replaced with a new great-performing one. The average
annualized total return for the S and P 500 index over the past 90 years is
9.8% out of the five mentioned Vanguard is our top pick index fund that should
begin every portfolio of everyone. Who's looking to build wealth in long term?
If this is something you're interested in the best resource available for this
is a book by surprisingly Tony Robbins called money master the game in which
all of this is broken down for you. We recommended it to our parents as the
go-to resource for retirement, even better.
Equipment.
Whatever
creates cash for you or assists you with bringing in cash quicker is viewed as
a resource. On the off chance that you're a rancher, the farm truck is a
resource. On the off chance that you're a developer, the PC is a resource. Assuming
you're an Uber driver, your vehicle is a resource. Whether something is a
resource, or an obligation change, if on the off chance that it had a direct
correlation to the money you are generating unless your income is directly
dependent on the car. Buying one counts as a liability. The fact that people
befuddle the two makes it particularly considered normal. They attempt to
legitimize it as a resource.
When
they’re mismanaging their own finances due to a lack of self-control. You
needn't bother with the costliest PC available to watch YouTube recordings.
Maybe at some point in the future, we'll make a video on the differences
between current and non-current assets and how those affect your accounting. Yet,
for now, we're keeping it basic.
Patents
patents
are awesome for those of you unfamiliar with them. At the point when you
concoct a novel, new thing, you can safeguard your innovation by documenting a
patent. It's a document that certifies you as the inventor and describes in
detail what your invention does with this protection in place. Companies must
pay money to use your innovation. If they don't, you get to Sue them. Licenses
are unimaginably strong and significant in the business world. A single patent
can make you rich and all the best inventions are backed by patents.
Just
to place things into point of view. Here are most of the US’s patents received
last year, and here's the company with the most US patents granted every year,
but it's not just big companies that rely on patents. Remember the slinky, it
made over 3 billion in sales. Scott stinger invented the KSH ball, which got
bought out by Hasbro for 100 million back in 97, that animatronic fish you saw
on everyone's wall a few years ago is called Big Mouth Billy Bass is also worth
over $100 million and the list goes on and on magic eight ball hula hoops or
anything you've seen on shark tank or the teleshopping channel.
Trademarks
If
patents protect your invention, trademarks, protect your symbols, words or
phrases. It's obvious why this is a big deal when it comes to the logo or the
name of a brand. In any case, here's where things get very fascinating. If you
own a valuable trademark that has a marketable value, you can license it to
people to use it for commercial purposes and they pay you in return. Our all
time. My favorite story is the one of Michael buffer who in 1992, trademarked
the catch rays. It's infectious and engaging. You know exactly how it sounds.
And every single time it's said in a commercial manner, you need to write a
check to Michael since trademarking it he's made over 400 million, just from
one catchphrase, Beyonce trademarked the name of her little girl, Blue Ivy
Carter, before she was conceived, just to ensure no one purposes it.
Commercially trademarks can be local or international, but good luck in forcing
it. What's more, just to keep things intriguing. One in five us companies says
there are companies in China infringing on their intellectual property. This is
actually one of the main reasons why China has been growing so quickly. The
complete disregard for intellectual property rights. China is stealing over
$600 billion in IP from the rest of the world every single year.
Brand and Goodwill
There
are subtle differences between Brand and Goodwill, but both are super valuable
to any business. A brand is a footprint. A company leaves in the minds of
consumers, what they stand for and what they present themselves as being
Goodwill is the emotional affection people have towards your brand. A brand is
owned. It's an effort. The organization is making to drive a specific picture
of itself into the commercial center. Goodwill comes from the way the company
treats its customers, the positive impact it has on the community, and how
grateful people are for the company’s existence.
Altruism
is difficult to develop or scale, yet individuals will in a real sense save
organizations from chapter 11 due to the Goodwill they have for it. There are
companies that became incredibly successful just through branding alone. The
Kardashian family is a great example of this, but if Kim or Kylie attached
their name to anything, they can drive sales like nobody else. We're not sure
if Kylie's lip kits are any better than her competition, but they made her a
billionaire. Also remember when Kim Kardashian made over a million dollars per
minute from her Kim Moji app, that was nuts. Of course, there are other
examples that might even drive this narrative better. Take a simple black
t-shirt. You can buy them for less than $2 a pop but put a Disney logo on them.
And now they're worth $1099, just because of the intangible value. The brand
brings to the thing.
People
You
don't understand exactly the way that significant a resource individual is
until they leave. Very few people understand that companies aren't real
companies are a figment of our imagination approved by the state organizations
are names, thoughts, and the development occurring under this nonexistent
umbrella. What's more, who thinks of these it's individuals, a solitary
individual can move an organization with their thoughts. Simply check the
effect out. Replacing Steve’s job with the former Pepsi CEO had the company,
nearly bankrupt. What is today? Presumably, the most cherished innovation
brand, digging further into the apple, their lead item architect, Johnny Ivy
designed the products that are now in the hands of billions of people. Then
there are the groups that make an organization. There have been cases when
bigger companies have acquired startups, just to bring those people in. There's
a term for it. It's called acquihire. Ideally, nobody in your company should be
irreplaceable, but the harder it is to replace some people the more valuable of
an asset they are to you. In this way, ensure they realize they're valued,
recruit the perfect individuals and they'll make you rich. We've been lucky
enough to have some amazing people on our team. Most of them stuck around since
the beginning. What's more, we've partaken in taking this excursion together,
who knows perhaps sometimes you'll get to meet them.
Raw Materials and Commodities
The
cost of unrefined components and products changes and shifts relying upon the
market. Assuming you're brilliant about it, you get it when it's modest, hold
it and sell it. At the point when it's sought after. This applies to everything
throughout everyday life. From money to oil, to gold, to crypto, to extravagant
vehicles and workmanship. Throughout the course of recent years, the cost of
gold has expanded by 278%.
This
could come as a shock to most of you, yet we love craftsmanship as an elective
resource class. Very few people know this, but art has been outperforming the S
and P for the past 20 years. This is one of the big reasons why you see wealthy
people dropping stupid amounts of money on art because it's making them even
richer. The same goes with vintage cars while your car is costing you money.
Some of the wealthiest people in the world are buying rare vintage cars that
are quickly appreciated and valued. The equivalent goes for different
collectibles, similar to extravagant watches. Presently, before you proceed to
blow all your cash on a classic Rolex on the grounds that you read some post on
Quora about how they double in value over time, you might want to take a
breather, and never invest in things you don't understand. It's one of the main
guidelines of cash ignore it. Also, you won't ever be rich.
Books, Songs, Digital courses, Information, or Content Information
books,
songs, digital courses, information, or content information is an incredible things
to be selling because it's infinitely scalable. You compose the book once and
you can sell it multiple times. The same goes for a digital course, a song or
any other type of info or digital product creating and dispersing such a
resource increments the worth of the business as well as can make you
exceptionally rich. If you want this concept of creating something once and
selling it unlimited times is fascinating to us so much so that not only, are
we working on creating new courses, The moment your product is done, your job
is to promote it and get it in the hands of as many people as you can with
music. It's even more interesting. Why? Because you only must get it right once
and you can literally be set for life. Gangnam style is an incredible model. SI
made over 10 million just from that one song distributed via YouTube and
iTunes. Also merchandise shows the authorizing, etc. Mariah Carey makes around
$500,000 every single year from one hit song. You all know and love. All I want
for Christmas, that song alone has made her over 60 million.
Royalties
We've
brushed a bit on royalties on the previous points, but there is an entire world
revolving around them. The simplest way to put it is you wrote a book. That's
great. A movie studio wants to buy the rights to your book and bank, a TV show
out of it. In exchange, you are getting a portion of the money generated. Let's
say the TV show is about friends. You made a ton of money already. The show
wraps up after 12 seasons and you're already rich, but it doesn't stop there.
There's a term called syndication. It's when a TV show becomes so big, that it
makes sense to open it up to multiple broadcasters. Keeping up with the friend’s
example, the cast of the TV show is still earning to this day between 10 and 20
million per year. Each of the reruns of the show, that's insane.
The
most recent big hit is the big bang theory, which got a multi-billion-dollar
deal with HBO to have exclusivity until 2028 royalties apply to everything that
has to do with your intellectual property. Royalties made George Lucas a
billionaire. When he proposed Star Wars to them, they didn't give it much
thought. Assuming it was likely to flop instead of paying George $500,000 in
directors fees, Fox allowed Lucas to maintain the licensing and merchandising
rights. Long story short, the movies, were a massive success. And by 2011, the
toys and merch have brought in over $3 billion to make up for their mistakes.
Disney bought out Lucas films for $4 billion and it took Disney just six years
to recoup its investment.
Unique Rights
We
wanted to mention this because there are instances where some parties might
have an unfair competitive advantage, which counts as an asset. For example, in
the US, there's something called the Indian gaming regulatory act, which grants
Indian natives, the rights to all types of gambling activities regulated under
state law. Anything from specialty licenses to geographical advantages can be
considered an asset. If it grants you a competitive advantage in the
marketplace, the church is another example. Since they don't have to pay taxes.
And this happens all over the world in Eastern Europe, almost every church is
run like a business. They have products, and merch services that cost money,
all tax exempts. The same goes for art museums and fraternal organizations.
First Mover Advantage and Proprietary Business Models.
Whenever you innovate in a commercial manner, this innovation is regarded as an asset. The app store by apple is one of those innovations. The micro-transactions and games are a new VO business model. The fact that Netflix evolved from delivering solid DVDs to a streaming service has been regarded as a very valuable asset for the company. It gave them the edge to capture market share while everyone else was on the sidelines. It took a couple of years for the remaining companies to catch up. And now streaming services are everywhere. The same happened to music. You used to purchase physical albums, then digital albums. Now you just pay for Spotify title or YouTube premium. Airbnb disrupted the hotel industry with a new way to rent short-term accommodations.
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