Top 10 Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‘right’ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Confidence comes from discipline and training.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes From His Book
Having two dads offered me the choice of contrasting points of view: one of a rich man and one of a poor man.
— Robert Kiyosaki
One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is that the subject of money is taught at home, not in school.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I develop my financial IQ because I want to participate in the fastest game and biggest game in the world.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My educated dad stressed the importance of reading books, while my rich dad stressed the need to master financial literacy.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The massive loss of jobs in recent times proves how shaky the middle class really is financially.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The greater your financial intelligence, the easier it is to tell whether a deal is good.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My educated dad’s personal financial statement best demonstrates the life of someone caught in the Rat Race. His expenses match his income, never allowing him enough left over to invest in assets.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make. It’s how much money you keep.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Motivational Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
The power of “can’t”: The word “can’t” makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The thing I always say to people is this: If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.
— Robert Kiyosaki
What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver, you become rich.
— Robert Kiyosaki
As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.
— Robert Kiyosaki
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When you create wealth, it’s your responsibility to return it to society.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Don’t let the fear of losing, be greater than the excitement of winning.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Watch what the idiots are doing, and do the opposite.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The most successful people are mavericks who aren’t afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it’s obvious.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.
— Robert Kiyosaki
It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Don’t waste a good mistake, learn from it.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that’s fine; learn from it & don’t make it again.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
— Robert Kiyosaki
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn’t know before.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Find out where you are at, where you are going and build a plan to get there.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You’ll often find that it’s not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that’s stopping you. It’s you. Get out of your own way.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Money only magnifies who you really are.
— Robert Kiyosaki
People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for cowards and those too full of fear to take action.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most Famous Robert Kiyosaki Quotes on Money
You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know. It is rule number one. It is the only rule.
— Robert Kiyosaki
An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.
— Robert Kiyosaki
It’s more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It’s more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
— Robert Kiyosaki
There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say ‘what happened?’
— Robert Kiyosaki
Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I keep hearing ‘I’d rather be happy than be rich.’ Why not be both?
— Robert Kiyosaki
Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes about Financial Advice
Personally, I use two main vehicles to achieve financial growth: real estate and small-cap stocks.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When it comes to money, high emotions tend to lower financial intelligence. I know from personal experience that money has a way of making every decision emotional.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Again, my success reflects the importance of a strong financial foundation, which starts with a strong financial education.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Pattern of treating your home as an investment, and the philosophy that a pay raise means you can buy a larger home or spend more, is the foundation of today’s debt-ridden society.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer despite tough changes.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you want to be rich and maintain your wealth, it’s important to be financially literate, in words as well as numbers.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Money is really just an idea.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The poor and the middle class work for money. Them rich have money work for them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Network Marketing Quotes
The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If my wife and I were to buy a bigger, flashier house, we realize it wouldn’t be an asset. It would be a liability since it would take money out of our pocket.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Our assets are large enough to grow by themselves. It’s like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn’t need you anymore.
— Robert Kiyosaki
People often work harder than they need to because they learned how to work hard, but not how to have their money work hard for them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Cash flow tells the story of how a person handles money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Our staggering national debt is due in large part to highly educated politicians and government officials making financial decisions with little or no training in the subject of money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
…The best investments are usually first sold to sophisticated investors, who then turn around and sell them to the people playing it safe.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The middle class finds itself in a constant state of financial struggle…Their expenses tend to increase in proportion to their salary increase: hence, the phrase ‘the Rat Race’.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.
— Robert Kiyosaki
There will be a hundred people like Bill Gates and hugely successful companies like Microsoft created every year, all over the world. And there also will be many more bankruptcies, layoffs, and downsizing.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The problem with ‘secure’ investments is that they are often sanitized, that is, made so safe that the gains are less.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Higher incomes cause higher taxes, also called ‘bracket creep’.
— Robert Kiyosaki
More Best Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
— Robert Kiyosaki
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.
— Robert Kiyosaki
We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.
— Robert Kiyosaki
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn’t my environment.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.
— Robert Kiyosaki
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The thing I always say to people is this: ‘If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.’
— Robert Kiyosaki
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
— Robert Kiyosaki
People say ‘I want to be rich’. The question is, ‘Are you willing to do what it takes?’
— Robert Kiyosaki
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‘Err on the side of caution.’
— Robert Kiyosaki
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
— Robert Kiyosaki
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don’t riot when oil prices rise.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Education is what you learn after you leave school.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.
— Robert Kiyosaki
This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When people are lame, they love to blame.
— Robert Kiyosaki
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
— Robert Kiyosaki
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you’re working for a good company and you’re happy there, and you’re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’ by G. Edward Griffin.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The trained mind is a rich mind.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads ‘The End Is Near,’ passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you’re like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout – a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.
— Robert Kiyosaki
It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.
— Robert Kiyosaki
For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
— Robert Kiyosaki
At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!
— Robert Kiyosaki
Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That’s one reason why you get so many credit card offers.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When my book ‘Rich Dad’s Prophecy’ was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Quitting is the easiest thing to do.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.
— Robert Kiyosaki
A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.
— Robert Kiyosaki
At the height of the Enron mania, the company’s market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‘intrinsic value’ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‘Age War.’ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.
— Robert Kiyosaki
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
— Robert Kiyosaki
A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Every time the Fed implements ‘quantitative easing,’ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs – derivatives – exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.
— Robert Kiyosaki
An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.
— Robert Kiyosaki
For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
— Robert Kiyosaki
‘Socialize’ means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors’ and mutual fund managers’ retirement.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You make more money if you’re generous.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Money has a language of its own.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.
— Robert Kiyosaki
In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‘stimulus,’ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.
— Robert Kiyosaki
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Few people realize that luck is created.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
— Robert Kiyosaki
That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’m a real estate guy.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‘What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?’
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.
— Robert Kiyosaki
It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he’s talking about. He’s been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’d rather be a victor than a victim.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
— Robert Kiyosaki
As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‘have-not,’ but I knew that I wasn’t.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren’t trained to be entrepreneurs.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Success is not a stop sign.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
— Robert Kiyosaki
In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.
— Robert Kiyosaki
In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, ‘Your home is not an asset.’ Real estate agents sent me hate mail.
— Robert Kiyosaki
While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.
— Robert Kiyosaki
‘Credit’ is another word for trustworthiness.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.
— Robert Kiyosaki
During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.
— Robert Kiyosaki
People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.
— Robert Kiyosaki
A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Managing your own property can be a full-time job.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.
— Robert Kiyosaki
As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.
— Robert Kiyosaki
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism’s creative destruction of slower industries.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I have had a ‘real’ job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
— Robert Kiyosaki
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.
— Robert Kiyosaki
As a precious metal, silver is also money.
— Robert Kiyosaki
In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.
— Robert Kiyosaki
There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn’t have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.
— Robert Kiyosaki
It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.
— Robert Kiyosaki
As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.
— Robert Kiyosaki
One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?
— Robert Kiyosaki
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.
— Robert Kiyosaki
