And if you do not want to learn, then I can- not teach you." If you're looking for a book on hot investment tips, or how to get rich quick, or the secret investment formula of the rich, this book is not for you. This book is really about learning more than investing. It is written for people who are students of investing, students who seek their own path to wealth rather than look for the easy road to wealth. This book is about rich dad's five phases of development, the five phases that he went through and that I am currently going through. If you are a student of great wealth, you may notice while reading this book that rich dad's five phases are the same five phases that the richest business people and in- vestors in the world went through in order to become very, very rich. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft; Warren Buffet, America's richest investor; and Thomas Edison, founder of General Electric, all went through these five phases. They are the same five phases that the young new millionaires and bil- lionaires of the Internet or the "dot com" generation are cur- rently going through while still in their twenties and thirties. The only difference is that because of the Information Age, these young people went through the same phases faster... and maybe so can you. What Should I Invest In? 35 Are You Part of the Revolution? Great wealth, vast fortunes, and mega-rich families were created during the Industrial Revolution. The same is going on today during the Information Revolution. I find it interesting that today we have self-made multi- millionaires and billionaires who are twenty, thirty, and forty years of age; yet we still have people forty and over having a tough time hanging on to $50,000-a-year jobs. One reason causing this great disparity is the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. When we shifted into the Industrial Age, people like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison became bil- lionaires. Today, shifting into the Information Age, we have Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and the founders of the Internet companies becoming young millionaires and billionaires. These twenty-somethings will soon be passing Bill Gates- who is old at 39-in wealth. That is the power of a shift in ages, the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. It has been said that there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come ... and there is nothing so detrimental than someone who is still thinking old ideas. For you, this book may be about looking at old ideas and possibly finding new ideas for wealth. It may also be about a paradigm shift in your life. It may be about a transition as rad- ical as the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. It may be about you defining a new financial path for your life. It may be about thinking more like a businessperson and investor rather than an employee or a self-employed person. It took me years to go through the phases, and in fact, I am still going through them.