Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

If you've lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can't help you become rich. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive. ~ 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

Money always flows to the leader ... If you want more money, simply become more of a leader. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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

You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport. ~ 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

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Losers are those who are afraid of losing ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone is business minded until it's time to be open minded about business. ~ Hash Mfukuli

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can't learn because they're too busy telling everyone what they know. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Are you really going to let a toilet stand in the way of you and financial independence? ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Rule One. 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 No. 1. It is the only rule. This may sound absurdly simple, but most people have no idea how profound this rule is. Most people struggle financially because they do not know the difference between an asset and a liability. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams ~ 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

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem ~ Robert Kiyosaki

More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Does God say, "cut back on the sunsets?" No, our Maker is abundant. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Making more money will not
solve your problems if cash flow
management is your problem. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

As a precious metal, silver is also money. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

When people are lame, they love to blame. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Taking one step, doing one thing every day that will get you closer to your own financial dream. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Find out where you are at, where you are going and build a plan to get there. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it's your job to earn it. ~ 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

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong ~ Robert Kiyosaki

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

To be truly wealthy, we must be able to give more than what we receive. ~ 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

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard? ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Job security is a myth ... it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. ~ 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

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

One of the reasons people aren't rich is because almost everyone has more excuses than money. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term. ~ 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

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

A call for women ... To rise up what it really takes for the reward of financial freedom. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

If you don't know where to put your money, it will be gone. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income ... passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing. ~ 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

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Your mind, more than your actions, determines your net worth. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to get richer quicker, then solve bigger problems! ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks ~ Robert Kiyosaki

I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Don't buy luxuries until you've built the assets to afford them ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap? ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Rich dad said it this way, 'Big people have big dreams and small people have small dreams. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dreams.' ~ Robert Kiyosaki

People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

You need to have the courage to fail. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious. ~ 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

If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence. ~ 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

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

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

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them. ~ 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