Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

People, who live below their means, save for a rainy day - the price is a cheap life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money; but at the end of the process, they are still cheap; so they have made money their God.

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

Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.

What you think is real is your reality.

If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

Excuses are the words coming from the loser in you.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.

You cannot be successful without failure.

The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.

What you think of me is none of my business. What is most important is what I think of myself.

It is easier to invest for cash flow during a financial crisis. So don't waste a good crisis by hiding your head in the sand. The longer the crisis lasts, the richer some people will become.

Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Get your assets working for you so that your "ass" isn't working for someone else.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich

In fact, I have a problem with too much money... I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Education is cheap; experience is expensive.

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

Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

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

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.

Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

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

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?

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

People who pay the price for security may never really feel secure rather the more their insecurity grows inside them because they are paying the price for action but not their internal reaction

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.

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

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.

If you change your thoughts you can change your actions.

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

We live in a global community and we can't really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view.

A network marketing business is the perfect business for people who like helping other people.

Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.