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

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying."

The most important job of the entrepreneur begins before there is a business or employees. The job of an entrepreneur is to design a business that can grow, employ many people, add value to its customers, be a responsible corporate citizen, bring prosperity to all those that work on the business, be charitable, and eventually no longer need the entrepreneur. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

The greatest cause of human financial struggle is the fear of losing money.

People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.

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

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