Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Three Ways to Buy Any Asset!

13 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short recorded conversation (YouTube) in which Richard Canfield and a guest discuss how business owners should think about acquiring assets. The guest frames a simple, repeatable framework: for any asset (e.g., trucks, machinery) there are three acquisition choices — lease/rent, buy with cash, or finance — and the decision hinges on balancing current cash flow against future scaling.

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What was the first kind of domino for you that. That tricked. That allowed you to say, wow, this is like a really powerful financial vehicle that could be utilized by business owners.
The business owner is always facing one thing. Cash flow today, but scaling in the future. How do they pay the bills today? How do they cash flow today, but scale for the future? Whatever the asset was, we're looking at a fleet of trucks. We're looking at a piece of machinery. We always ask ourselves, there's three ways to acquire this asset. We could rent or lease the fleet of truck, we could buy the trucks all cash, or we could finance that fleet of trucks. Now, there are three ways to acquire. And every asset can lease it, you can buy it all cash, you can finance it.