Money may not make the world go around but it will pay for the trip.

You have probably heard it said that money doesn’t buy happiness.  If you start to pay attention you will probably notice that the people who say things like this typically don’t have very much money.  Money may not buy happiness but it does pay the bill.

Money is necessary in this society to provide us with our basic necessities.  Money also gives us the freedom and ability to have and do the things we desire in life.  Happiness is a state of mind but having the money and freedom to live your life they way you desire as well as not having to worry and stress over where your basic necessities will come from tends to contribute greatly to that state of mind.

The most common way is to get a get a job and spend much of our waking lives working for someone and in exchange they pay us money.  This is what most people chose to do mostly because that’s what they were always told to do.

Another way is to start your own business.  There are many advantages to having your own business but in many cases a traditional business is a lot like having a job.  In many cases people who have their own business end up working harder and some make even less money than people who have a job.  A business often takes a large amount of capital to start and it can take years to start making a profit.  When a business does pay off it can become a great thing but that is typically the minority.

Another way to get money is to become an investor.  As an investor you invest in or create things that will continually give you money long after the initial investment.  An example would be where someone was to build a house and then rent it out. There is an initial investment of building the house but after the house is built the work is done. The money the house produces from rent keeps coming in even though the builder is no longer working to build the house.  With a few investments like this a investor can spend a minimal amount of time maintaining his investments and the rest of the time he can do whatever he pleases and the money will keep flowing

You might think you will need a bunch of money in order to be an investor.  That’s not necessarily the case. There are other things besides money that you can invest such as time and knowledge and leveraging other people.

Two examples of this are Internet Marketing and Network Marketing.

Internet Marketing allows you to leverage computers to where they will continually generate an income for you long after the time or money investment of setting them up.

Network Marketing allows you to leverage people who will be a self managing sales force selling other peoples products that will produce a commission for you long after you introduce them to the business.