Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.

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.

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

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

Success is a poor teacher

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.

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

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.

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you.

Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.

It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.

Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.

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.

The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all.

People without financial knowledge, who take advice from financial experts are like lemmings simply following their leader. They race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty, hoping to swim to the other side.

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.

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

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

The right decisions come from the right focus. You’ll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

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

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

It is not how much you make that counts, but how much money you keep.

In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

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.

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

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy

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.

Learn how to learn, then learn what to learn

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.

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