Words matter. These are the best Robert Kiyosaki Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
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.
Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.
I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.
In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, ‘Your home is not an asset.’ Real estate agents sent me hate mail.
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
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.
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
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.
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.
‘Socialize’ means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.
Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.
I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.
Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.
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.
Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
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.
Money has a language of its own.
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.
Education is what you learn after you leave school.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.
If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?
My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.
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.
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.
I’m a real estate guy.
I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.
My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
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.
One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.
Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.
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.
Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.
For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
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.
At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.
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.
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.
I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.
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.
If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.
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.
The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.
The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
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.
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.
The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
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.
Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.
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.
Confidence comes from discipline and training.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.
Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
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.
Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.
The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.
I’d rather be a victor than a victim.
Quitting is the easiest thing to do.
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.