Robert Kiyosaki Quotes & Sayings

Some people worry. Others prepare. — Robert Kiyosaki

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets. — Robert Kiyosaki

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 — Robert Kiyosaki

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams. — Robert Kiyosaki

No one cares about it more than you. Give it the attention it needs. — Robert Kiyosaki

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. — Robert Kiyosaki

Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal — Robert Kiyosaki

The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear — Robert Kiyosaki

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is. — Robert Kiyosaki

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. — Robert Kiyosaki

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it. — Robert Kiyosaki

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to get richer quicker, then solve bigger problems! — Robert Kiyosaki

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 — Robert Kiyosaki

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath. — Robert Kiyosaki

Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it. — Robert Kiyosaki

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon. — Robert Kiyosaki

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out. — Robert Kiyosaki

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

The network marketing industry offers many unique benefits to those who want more out of life. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — 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

If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts. — Robert Kiyosaki

If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business. — Robert Kiyosaki

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose. — Robert Kiyosaki

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer. — Robert Kiyosaki

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. — Robert Kiyosaki

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying." — Robert Kiyosaki

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means. — Robert Kiyosaki

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. — Robert Kiyosaki

Money always flows to the leader ... If you want more money, simply become more of a leader. — Robert Kiyosaki

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor. — Robert Kiyosaki

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children. — Robert Kiyosaki

Do not let fear of failure overwhelms joy success — Robert Kiyosaki

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials. — Robert Kiyosaki

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.' — Robert Kiyosaki

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions. — Robert Kiyosaki

I'm a real estate guy. — Robert Kiyosaki

In order to be a player on the fast track, you will need to have a plan on how to gain more and more control. On the fast track, it is control more than money that counts. — Robert Kiyosaki

Losers are people who are afraid of losing. — Robert Kiyosaki

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you. — Robert Kiyosaki

I'd rather be a victor than a victim. — Robert Kiyosaki

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize. — Robert Kiyosaki

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. — Robert Kiyosaki

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them — Robert Kiyosaki

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it. — Robert Kiyosaki

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves. — Robert Kiyosaki

I am pro-education. I'm just anti the system. — Robert Kiyosaki

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain. — Robert Kiyosaki

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard? — Robert Kiyosaki

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. — Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first ... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want. — Robert Kiyosaki

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.' — Robert Kiyosaki

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids. — Robert Kiyosaki

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket. — Robert Kiyosaki

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real. — Robert Kiyosaki

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

Don't do anything for the money you WILL make, but instead for the SKILLS you will learn. — Robert Kiyosaki

Think of something new you've actually learned in the past week; if you can't think of anything, get comfortable where you're at because you're not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

Don't bury your failures, let them inspire you. — Robert Kiyosaki

Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you're lazy, don't expect much in terms of success. You're owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It's earned. — 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

One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant. — Robert Kiyosaki

Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found. — Robert Kiyosaki

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil. — 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

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity. — Robert Kiyosaki

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives. — Robert Kiyosaki

Don't just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great. — Robert Kiyosaki

Losers are those who are afraid of losing — 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

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

When you diversify your mutual funds, you are diversifying something that is already diversified. Diversifying mutual funds is like taking high octane gasoline & adding water & then adding orange juice to it. — Robert Kiyosaki

It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise. — Robert Kiyosaki

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world. — Robert Kiyosaki

I believe in taking care of myself and teaching other people who want to learn. I don't believe in just printing money and giving money. I'm willing to teach those who are willing to learn. If you're not willing to learn, then go vote for Obama. I'm not Republican or Democrat, so don't get me wrong. — Robert Kiyosaki

It's not what you know anymore that counts, it's how fast you learn — Robert Kiyosaki

The harder you work for money, the more you are taxed, the harder your money works, the less it is taxed. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki