Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

Start small and dream big.

Success is a poor teacher.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Money has a language of its own.

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.

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

Financial freedom is a mental, emotional and educational process.

That's why I like Texans so much. They took a great failure and turned it into a tourist destination that makes them millions. Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them.

Unless you're getting passive income from your house, it is a liability and not an asset.

Investing involves risk (something that's inevitable and can only be controlled not extinguished). Being financially uneducated is risky.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

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

Do not let fear of failure overwhelms joy success.

Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.

The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks.

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!

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

True passion attracts. If you have passion in your business, the right people will be attracted to your team.

What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow.

You become what you study.

The world is full of smart, poor people.

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

Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.

People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.

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.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

By its very nature and design, Network Marketing is a strikingly Fair, Democratic, Socially Responsible system of generating wealth.

Network marketing is the fastest growing business model in the world today.

If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

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

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward-- or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive?

Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.

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

Instead, to be financially free, we need to learn how to make mistakes and manage risk.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.

Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.

FOCUS -- Follow One Course Until Successful.

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

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

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

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

The problem with tomorrow is that I have never seen a tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist. Tomorrow only exist in the mind of dreamers and losers.

A network marketing business is the perfect business for people who like helping other people.

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

Humility is absolutely necessary for true learning. Robert T.

Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in. Robert T.

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

There is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it. Robert T.

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. Robert T.

It does not take money to make money. Robert T.

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

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

FOCUS -- Follow One Course Until Successful. Robert T.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

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

There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it.

A smart entrepreneur knows they can not run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

More important than the how we achieve financial freedom, is the why. Find your reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely.

I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their wealth. And there are people too busy to take care of their health. The cause is the same. They're busy, and they stay busy as a way to avoid something they do not want to face.

Take risks, be bold and let your genius convert your fear into power and brilliance.

Don't work for money; make it work for you.

I'm a real estate guy.

All depends on how determined we are to be successful.

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.

Life will get in the way. Count on it. Be prepared for it. Maintain focus and press on towards your goal.

It's not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.

If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dream. Even if you are broke, it does not cost you anything to dream of being rich. Many poor people are poor because they have given up on dreaming.

Passion pushes you to learn more, create more and to create better. Best of all, it's contagious.

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.

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.

In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich.

The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.

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

Never stand idly while people commit what you know to be an injustice! Injustice only leads to more injustice!

Most investors say Don't take risks. The rich investor takes risks.

Losers are those who are afraid of losing.

Does God say, cut back on the sunsets? No, our Maker is abundant.

Your mind, more than your actions, determines your net worth.

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.

The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money.

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

I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.

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.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

Once again, the 90 10 rule of money applies -- 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer -- 90% use debt to get poorer.

Throughout history, every government that's printed money, the money has eventually gone to its ultimate value which is zero. Remember? The confederate dollar went to zero. The continental went to zero. That's what happens when you have a bank that's allowed to print as much money as it wants to.

Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

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

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan -- create ten businesses.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

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

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

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time.

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.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

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.

Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich.

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.

Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.

If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

If you change your thoughts you can change your actions.

The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all.

Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.

Enjoy the time you have with your friends and family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system's failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Financial independence is about having more choices.

If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

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

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

The right decisions come from the right focus. You'll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.

If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.

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

The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.

Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.

You cannot be successful without failure.

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

The moment you stop learning, you're dying.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

When we're passionate about something, we innovate, create, and continue on with our dreams.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Money is a powerful force. don't use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life.

I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

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.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

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.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and or portfolio income.

The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.

If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers.

Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

Rich dad has taught me You can't do it doesn't necessarily mean you can't. It more often means they can't.

My Rich Dad said, 'All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.'

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

The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.

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.

You can always quit, so why quit now.

Skills make you rich, not theories.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle
class. The decision is up to you.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

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.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

A winning strategy must include losing.

When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.

What you think is real is your reality.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

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.