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By the time Mike and I were 16 years old, we began to have problems in school.
我和邁克16歲時(shí)，在學(xué)校遇到了麻煩。
We were not bad kids. We just began to separate from the crowd.
我們不是壞孩子，只是開始和同學(xué)們疏遠(yuǎn)了。
We worked for Mike's dad after school and on weekends.
我們在周末及平時(shí)放學(xué)后為邁克的爸爸干活
Mike and I often spent hours after work just sitting at a table with his dad
干完活后，我們會(huì)花幾個(gè)小時(shí)坐在一邊聽富爸爸開會(huì)
while he held meetings with his bankers, attorneys, accountants, brokers, investors, managers, and employees.
他和他的銀行經(jīng)理、律師、會(huì)計(jì)師、經(jīng)紀(jì)人、投資商、經(jīng)理和員工開會(huì)。
We learned more sitting in on his meetings than we did in all our years of school, college included.
我和邁克在這些會(huì)議中學(xué)到了不少東西，甚至比在學(xué)校里包括大學(xué)學(xué)到的還要多。
Mike's dad was not school educated, but he was financially educated and successful as a result.
邁克的爸爸雖然沒有受過高等教育，但作為一個(gè)成年人，他有很豐富的財(cái)務(wù)知識(shí)并且最終獲得了成功。
He used to tell us over and over again, "An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than they are."
他曾反復(fù)地對我們說："聰明人總是雇用比他更聰明的人。"
So Mike and I had the benefit of spending hours listening to and in the process learning from intelligent people.
所以，我和邁克總是愿意花幾個(gè)小時(shí)聽那些聰明人說話并向他們學(xué)習(xí)。
But because of this, both Mike and I just couldn't go along with the standard dogma our teachers preached.
因此，我和邁克很難再遵循老師們教的那些僵化的教條。
Occasionally, Mike or I would ask our teachers how what we studied was applicable, or we asked why we never studied money and how it worked.
我和邁克有時(shí)會(huì)問老師，怎樣才能學(xué)以致用，或是為什么我們不學(xué)習(xí)有關(guān)錢的知識(shí)及其運(yùn)動(dòng)的規(guī)律。
To the latter question, we often got the answer that money was not important, that if we excelled in our education, the money would follow.
對第二個(gè)問題，我們得到的回答通常是：錢并不重要，如果我們學(xué)習(xí)成績好，自然就會(huì)有錢。
The more we knew about the power of money, the more distant we grew from the teachers and our classmates.
我們越了解錢的力量，與老師和同學(xué)們的距離就越遠(yuǎn)。
My highly educated dad never pressured me about my grades, I often wondered why.
我的受過高等教育的爸爸從不過問我的成績，這使我感到驚訝。
But we did begin to argue about money.
但我們卻開始為錢的事爭論。
By the time I was 16, I probably had a far better foundation with money than both my mom and dad.
在我16歲時(shí)，我可能就已經(jīng)掌握了比父母更多的財(cái)務(wù)基礎(chǔ)知識(shí)。
I could keep books, I listened to tax accountants, corporate attorneys, bankers, real estate brokers, investors, and so forth. My dad talked to teachers.
因?yàn)槲医?jīng)常看書，經(jīng)常聽審計(jì)師、企業(yè)律師、銀行家、房地產(chǎn)經(jīng)紀(jì)人、投資人的談話，而爸爸每天只和老師們談話。
One day my dad was telling me that our home was his greatest investment.
一天，爸爸告訴我我們的房子是他最大的投資時(shí)
A not-too-pleasant argument took place when I showed him why I thought a house was not a good investment.
我告訴他我認(rèn)為房子并非是一項(xiàng)好的投資，一場不太愉快的爭論發(fā)生了。
