Robert Kiyosaki
My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.
I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.
I'm a real estate guy.
Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.
Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.
Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.
I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.
Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.
When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.
Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.
Success is not a stop sign.
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.
I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.
Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'
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.
The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn't start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!
Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.
Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
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 or losing your job.
I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system.
The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.
A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.
In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.
Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts.
What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.
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.
The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.
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.
The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.
This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.
When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.
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.
Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.
I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.
By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.
The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.
In 'Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education' and 'Why A Students Work for C Students,' I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.
When I watch professional football, I love listening to John Madden because I know he knows what he's talking about. He's been both down in the trenches and in front of the bench as a coach. He knows the game.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
The trained mind is a rich mind.
My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'
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.