Robert Kiyosaki Quotes:- Robert Kiyosaki (born April 8, 1947) is an American businessman and author. Kiyosaki is the founder of Rich Global LLC (now bankrupt) and the Rich Dad Company, a private financial education company that provides personal finance and business education to people through books and videos.
The company’s main revenues come from franchisees of the Rich Dad seminars that are conducted by independent people using Kiyosaki’s brand name for a fee.
Inspirational Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
“An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Like a precious metal, silver is also money.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Inspirational Robert Kiyosaki Quotes On Success
“At the height of the Enron mania, the company’s market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Credit’ is another word for trustworthiness.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Education is what you learn after you leave school.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”-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
“For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Inspirational Quotes on Money
“Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Giving poor person money keeps them poor.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I believe that one key to success is to accept the truth”, no matter how it’s spoken.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I have had a ‘real’ job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I’d rather be a victor than a victim.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes About Education
“If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“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.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’ by G. Edward Griffin.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren’t trained to be entrepreneurs.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I’m a real estate guy.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Inspirational Robert Kiyosaki Quotes on Business
“I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, ‘Your home is not an asset.’ Real estate agents sent me to hate” mail.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Managing your own property can be a full-time job.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk of losing your job.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.”-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
“It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Best Robert Kiyosaki Quotes About Experience
“Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch the show. I just do not follow his advice.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven’t been taught how to take control of their financial future.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Money has a language of its own.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes about Opportunity
“Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Quitting is the easiest thing to do.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stockpiles of silver are dwindling.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Socialize’ means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Best Robert Kiyosaki Quotes on Children
“Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.”-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
“Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Success is not a stop sign.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Famous Robert Kiyosaki Quotes on Brain
“The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The thing I always say to people is this: ‘If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Famous Robert Kiyosaki on Mind
“Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“What I invest in, while not risky for me, maybe too risky for most people.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.”-Robert Kiyosaki
Best Robert Kiyosaki About Economy
“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.”-Robert Kiyosaki
“When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.”-Robert Kiyosaki
