Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.

... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

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.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

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

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

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.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work, that's why there are two types of people today. Those who build their own dreams and those who build someone else dreams.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know. It is Rule No. 1. It is the only rule. This may sound absurdly simple, but most people have no idea how profound this rule is. Most people struggle financially because they do not know the difference between an asset and a liability.

People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

I'm often asked how to start investing with little or no money. Please hear this as this is the hardest thing for people to understand: you do NOT invest with money! You invest with your mind! No matter what the field, your biggest asset is your mind. Once you have knowledge, you find deals, find your team and use other people’s money. You sell the deal and your team to get investment money.

God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.

Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve.

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

The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money...but never learn to have money work for them.

Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

If you want to be rich, simply serve more people.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won't try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't help you move forward.

Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating.

Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.

Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth.

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich