

That rule is, any dollar that comes into the asset column, stays in the asset column. There will be times when you are faced with this choice. Often throughout the game you will be faced with the decision of, “Do I keep my asset which is giving me cash flow, or sell it and take the cash?”ĬASHFLOW is based on real life. That is why is so important to play with fake money before playing with your own real money. They don’t have the money or experience but they want to “go for it all”. While playing the game, there will always be players who go for the BIG deal before they have ever done a SMALL deal. The first step is to get some education and then start small. We often say, “It’s not the investment that’s risky, it’s the investor.” Someone who puts their money into an investment (real estate, stocks, business, commodities) with not education about the investment is a very risky investor. AS INVESTING EDUCATION INCREASES, YOUR RISK DECREASES.Rest assured that behavior, and it may be your own behavior, that shows up in the game will also show up in life.Īs you’re playing CASHFLOW, watch the behaviors of the other players, as well as your own, to see if how you play the board game… is how you play life. Here are just a few, of many, lessons to watch for as your play CASHFLOW.Īny game you play – any sports, board games, any competition – will bring out a person’s true behavior. Our suggestion is this – if you attend a CASHFLOW Club and at some point during the game play you get a sales pitch on another product or business – please take a look at the true intention of that club, and choose whether to continue with that club or not. In other words, they use the club as a sales pitch to sell you on their product or business.

Please be aware that some people form a CASHFLOW Club for the purpose of making themselves wealthy, regardless if you benefit or not.

The CASHFLOW Clubs we support are those that operate for the sole purpose of teaching and supporting their members to have healthier and happier financial lives. We are so very grateful for every CASHFLOW Club that exists for the sole purpose of improving people’s financial lives. The CASHFLOW Clubs are reaching the people and doing the work that we cannot reach or do ourselves. They are teaching, encouraging and supporting one another to achieve their financial goals and dreams. These clubs are near and dear to our hearts. The CASHFLOW Clubs fulfill the mission that we choose to take on in 1996. There are always new distinctions to get from the game, because where you are today is not where you will be a month from now. The importance of being part of a CASHFLOW Club is that you get to play the game often. We know of one club that meets once a month at their favorite pizza parlor. Some groups meet at coffee shops, some at people’s offices. These clubs are groups of people that spontaneously get together on a regular basis and play the game. We began doing our own research and we discovered that there were approximately 3,500 CASHFLOW Clubs worldwide. One day the journalist writing the story called us and asked, “Did you know that you have a CASHFLOW Club here in New York with about 1,000 members?” We said, “No, we didn’t know that.” Then he went on to say, “I’ve been doing some research and do you know there are CASHFLOW Clubs all over the world?” We were stunned and speechless. The CASHFLOW Game and the CASHFLOW ClubsĪ few years after we launched the CASHFLOW game the New York Times newspaper called us and said they wanted to do a story on the game. The CASHFLOW game was our first product to begin fulfilling that mission. We would love you to join in our mission. The mission statement of The Rich Dad Company from day 1 is: To elevate the financial well-being of humanity. We decided to take on the task of bringing financial education to anyone who wanted it throughout the world. The problem we saw was that there was little-to-no financial education throughout the school system, globally. The purpose of a business is to solve a problem. Rich Dad Poor Dad, the book, actually started as a brochure to promote the game. The CASHFLOW game was the first product of The Rich Dad Company. The CASHFLOW Game and The Rich Dad Mission And in October 1996, we launched the CASHFLOW board game in Singapore to a group of about 500 players. Having never invented a board game, every day was an experiment in what works and what doesn’t works. And it opens up discussion about money and investing that most people never talk about. You make investing mistakes… but with play money, not real money. By playing the game you see different strategies of different players.
