10 important smart financial questions

1. How long would it take you to save $1 million and how long would it take you to borrow $1 million?

Discuss : Let’s us talk about RM30 thousand only instead of $ 1 million. If my annual bonus & saving is RM3 thousand (3K) then I need to wait about 10 years to achieve RM30K. But you are able to borrow RM30K from Banker within a few weeks when you purchase a property or personal loan. This is the time frame gap between two scenarios. Saving is difficult than borrowing money from banker. Remember do not borrow from loan sharp. It is a financial trap.

2. Who is going to get rich in the long run? Someone who works all their lives trying to save a million dollars? Or someone who knows how to borrow a million dollars at 10% interest and also knows how to invest it and receive a 25% per year return on that borrowed million dollars

Discuss : As discuss on above, saving is tougher than borrowing. Principally, all the business owners are using bank to run their business. We can see that most of the richest people in the World are running a business either online or offline.

3. To whom would a banker rather lend money? Someone who works hard for money, or someone who knows how to borrow money and have that money safely and intelligently work hard for them

Discussion: Bankers are likely to lend their money to a businessman/woman with well establish business compare with an employee. This is my past experience borrow money from bank. They will see financial statement (monthly or annual income) and they will only lend 30% from your income. This is why financial statement is essential in this reality world.

4. Who would you have to be and what you have to know in order to call your banker and say, ‘I want to borrow a million dollars.’ Then have the banker say, ‘I will have the paper for you to sign in twenty minutes.’

Discussion : If you have an asset in your hand such as property, banker will treat you as KING because they can gain good income from your loan.

5. Why does the government tax your saving but give you a tax break for being in debt ?

Discussion : If you are high income employee (more than RM100K per annual) in Malaysia, you must pay 28% of your annual income to government. However, if you are earning same amount as above employee, the tax is much lover than 28% because there are many tax break can be benefited to a business owner.

6. Who has to be financially smarter and better financially educated? A person with a million dollars in saving or a person with a million dollars in debt?

Discussion : A person with a million dollars in debt must smarter and better financially educated. These groups of people are running a business. Their passion in business enables them to get richer and richer due to this leverage.

7. Who has to be financially smarter with money? Someone who work hard for money or someone who has money work hard for him.

Discussion : Before we have money to work hard for us, we need to work hard for money if you start with nothing.

8. If you have a choice of education, would you choose to go to school to learn how to work hard for money, or would you rather go to school to learn how to have money work hard for you

Discussion : This is a survival world and no person like to share wealth.

9. Why is it that a banker will gladly lend you money to speculate in real estate, but will hesitate to lend you money to speculate in the stock market

Discussion : Real estate is permanent asset which is existing forever and valuable compare with stock market. Stock market will be a piece of blank paper if the markets bear.

10. Why do people who work the hardest and save the most pay more in taxes than people who work less and borrow more

Discussion : The road of business is tougher than work for people. Initial stage of business perhaps you gain nothing