In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.

Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.

In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.

If you aren’t practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur.