The Principles of Wealth Creation

Tang Xiaoming is the founder of financial intelligence education in China, a foundational figure and leading synthesizer of Chinese financial intelligence education theory, and vice chairman of the Financial Intelligence Education Center of the Chinese Society of Education. He successfully planned and produced such mega-bestsellers as Rich Dad Poor Dad, Who Moved My Cheese? and A Dog Called Money. In 2011, Money Weekly named him, together with Jack Ma, Lang Xianping, Ma Weihua, Mao Yushi, Ma Weidu, Rupert Hoogewerf and others, one of the "Ten Most Influential Figures in Chinese Wealth Management over the Past Decade." In recent years, Tang Xiaoming has devoted himself to financial intelligence education in China, traveling to nearly 100 Chinese cities and giving more than 1,000 talks on the subject. This book tells the story of Tang's financial intelligence training with four young people born in the 1980s, the various choices they face in a changing era, and the comparison between their money values and views of personal freedom and those of their parents. Through conversations with the four young people and their parents, Tang gradually reveals the truth about money in the era we live in, the secret of the rich, and why a minority rules over the wealth of the majority—that is, why the Gini coefficient keeps rising. Through his seven lessons, he proposes how people can, in this era, change themselves and their environment step by step in a more efficient, lower-risk, more scientific and rational way, ultimately embarking on a clear, rational and wise path of dealing with money and wealth and achieving financial freedom.