Things Rich People Know That You Need to Learn
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
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🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Most people aren't wealthy because they don't understand money. |
| 0:03.2 | I would say the majority of people don't. |
| 0:05.2 | Like if it's in their account, they understand it. |
| 0:07.7 | If they have their own, then of course they start to learn. |
| 0:10.7 | Yeah, I mean, people always say, like, oh, I'm bad with money. |
| 0:13.0 | And that just means that they're bad at balancing their checkbook. |
| 0:15.3 | But really, like, understanding money is something that most wealthy people understand money. |
| 0:21.3 | That's the... |
| 0:21.7 | It's funny because it's really not too difficult. |
| 0:25.2 | It's almost like, like, I know, like, to compare it with you, like, once you start to understand |
| 0:30.7 | health, like what you eat and how it makes a difference, then it's crystal clear. |
| 0:35.8 | So it's just a matter of just understanding a few things. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah, because if you don't understand money, no matter what you try to understand about |
| 0:44.9 | being wealthy or how to obtain wealth, you're never going to get it if you don't understand |
| 0:50.0 | the basis. |
| 0:50.5 | No, because the only thing you have is I'm going to work more. |
| 0:53.2 | Right, right. |
| 0:53.9 | And that's not what you want to do. What you want to do is make more, but you want to keep |
| 1:00.6 | more. But also, you know, understanding like what's your time worth and, you know, I always talk to |
| 1:07.0 | people about, they know, I get asked to do all kinds of stuff all the time and now I've learned |
| 1:12.1 | okay is it worth my time is it worth my time to drive over there sit down spend a half a day spend a |
| 1:17.5 | full day and now while a lot of you might not think that way you should be thinking that way |
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