Kiyosaki Quotes & Sayings

At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop. — Robert Kiyosaki

Business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich. — Robert T. 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

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

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

Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice. — Robert Kiyosaki

There are fast ideas and slow ideas, just as there are fast trains and slow trains. When it comes to money, most people are on the slow train looking out the window watching the fast train pass them by. If you want to become rich quickly, your plan must include fast ideas. — Robert Kiyosaki

Start small and dream big. — Robert Kiyosaki

There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can't learn because they're too busy telling everyone what they know. — Robert Kiyosaki

The ability to sell - to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child - is the base skill of personal success. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

He also despised the school system, although
he thrived in it. He became a teacher because he also dreamed of
changing the system, but instead the system crushed him. He took
his passion, tried to change the system, and ran into a brick wall. It
was a system that too many people were making money in, and no
one wanted it changed, although there was a lot of talk about the
need for change. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

People are so afraid of losing that they lose — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Whatever your reality is about money inside of you is the reality of money outside of you. You cannot change your outside reality until you first change your inside reality about money. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Get a safe job." "Don't make mistakes."
"Don't take risks. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially. — Robert Kiyosaki

When the fear of losing money and failing becomes too painful inside, a fear we both have, he chooses to seek security and I choose to seek freedom. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?' — Robert Kiyosaki

Whenever you feel 'short' or in 'need' of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market. — Robert Kiyosaki

Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar. — Robert Kiyosaki

Learning how to tell a powerful story is learning how to show up as the winner you are. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs. — Robert Kiyosaki

It is not real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, or money that makes you rich; it is what you know about real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, and money that makes you rich. Ultimately, it is your financial intelligence that makes you rich. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones. — 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

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order. — Robert Kiyosaki

If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your ignorance is in control. Intelligence or ignorance? Your ability to keep an open mind and appreciate multiple points of view is conscious choice. And one that can open your world, and shape your childs future. — Robert Kiyosaki

Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance. — Robert Kiyosaki

There is a difference between helping, comforting, feeding, and empowering people. As I've said many times: Simply giving money (or entitlements) to poor people only serves to keep them poor longer. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

You can't take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first. — Robert Kiyosaki

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich. — Robert Kiyosaki

Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you — Robert Kiyosaki

Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world. You must accept that opportunity is everywhere. Opportunity is all the time. It does not disappear in the difficult times, in fact it's even greater. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business. — Robert Kiyosaki

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. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown. — 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

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

Struggled to save a few dollars. The other created investments. One dad taught — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this. — Robert Kiyosaki

Financial freedom is freedom from fear. — Robert Kiyosaki

Taking care of you" doesn't mean to award yourself with a new pair of shoes or spending beyond measure on a trip to Tahiti. It actually means to take care of your financial future. — Kim 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

If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers — Robert Kiyosaki

The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks — Robert Kiyosaki

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy. — Robert Kiyosaki

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs. — Robert Kiyosaki

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it. — Robert Kiyosaki

I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money. — Robert Kiyosaki

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

You can prosper, no matter what the economy is doing. — Robert Kiyosaki

For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process. — 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

Winning means being unafraid to lose." In — Robert T. Kiyosaki

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith. — Robert Kiyosaki

I think I have made my message clear. It's what is in your head that determines what is in your hands. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else — Robert Kiyosaki

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms. — Robert Kiyosaki

There's a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning. — Robert Kiyosaki

A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it. — Robert Kiyosaki

Many people will not head down the street until all the lights are green. That is why they don't go anywhere. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you aren't practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

know a little about a lot. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first. — Robert Kiyosaki

I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because
unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well
silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum. — Robert Kiyosaki

Pay your brokers well: the power of good advice Sometimes — Robert T. Kiyosaki

You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve. — Robert Kiyosaki

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected. — Robert Kiyosaki

It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit. — Robert T. 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

As a precious metal, silver is also money. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

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. — Robert Kiyosaki

The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief. — Robert Kiyosaki

I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you. — Robert Kiyosaki

Leadership is what you need to learn next — Robert T. Kiyosaki

My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income ... passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties. — Robert Kiyosaki

The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times. — Robert Kiyosaki

You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars. — Robert Kiyosaki

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done. — Robert Kiyosaki

To be truly rich, we need to be able to give as well as to receive. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives. — Robert Kiyosaki

Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt. — Robert Kiyosaki