Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

At the height of the Enron mania, the company’s market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‚Freedom from Bad Debt‘ can get you started.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.