Ok to be rich using QuickBooks - Volume 13

Hi! This is KC Truby. I want to tell you a little story about the day I decided it was a good idea to be rich. I actually grew up poor. We were sharing properties. I know how it was to have experiences like those. I have even read books about how poor people were sharing properties all days. They moved from house to house and farm to farm. My mom still had to pump when she turned on the water in the kitchen sink. Then, she got up at 4 o'clock in the morning to throw wood and coal in the old coal stove that we used to heat up the house. That would get me warmed up so I could have coffee and biscuits before I went out and milk the cows at five o'clock. That was a good life and I learned a lot about working. But I learned something else one Saturday afternoon when I was ten years old, something that totally changed my outlook on life.

I used to be proud to be poor. We marched around and sung country songs by Merle Haggard. That was how excited we were to be poor. Then, I went to town on a Saturday afternoon to watch a movie, "Gone with the Wind". This was in the 60s, though "Gone with the Wind" came out in the 30s. It was a 30-year old movie at that time, so I probably had a discount of about 50 cents which I saved up. I was so excited to be in the movie. I was watching and sitting there with bare feet swinging in the air. And here's what's exciting%u2026 halfway through the movie, Scarlett's hair is full of dirt. She reaches up on the sunset in the background and sits down on her knees, making cotton and planting beans trying to make enough money to feed her family. And she's reaching up with a piece of dirt and goes, "God is my witness. I will never be poor again." It's a choice! I didn't know it was a choice. I thought whatever you were born into is what you died into. But no, it's a choice. I came home and told my mom, "I'm gonna be rich!" She started laughing and said, "Those rich folks are not happy." I replied, "Mom, you don't know any rich folk. You don't know."

I made a life decision that I was going to be rich. And I must not have been the only one. Two hundred twenty-five years ago in the planet, just about everybody was poor. Then, something happened that triggered wealth on the planet and it has doubled in wealth like in every five years ever since this happened. Here's what it was, a group of pioneers were upset and angry because every time they created wealth in a new country called America, the monarch came by and snatched it. They realized that as long as they were living under a monarchy, tyranny, dictatorship, or socialism which has not been invented yet but its concept is already floating around-as long as we live on one of these political systems, someone is going to come in and take all our money. We will work hard and somebody will decide that we don't deserve it.

So, 2025 years ago, democracy was invented in the planet right here where we are to protect capitalism. We are lucky to be alive in America. We are lucky to be alive today. There has never been a better time in the history of mankind to create and share wealth. I'm excited to be here, and so are you.


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