Top 819 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Kiyosaki
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Robert Kiyosaki.
Last updated on September 9, 2024.
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
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.
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'
Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.
If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.
The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
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.
If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.
Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.
When people are lame, they love to blame.
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.
Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
I just don't like mutual funds. I think they're a rip-off.
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
Confidence comes from discipline and training.
I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.
The trained mind is a rich mind.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
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.
An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.
Quitting is the easiest thing to do.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.
My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.
It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.
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.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.
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.
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.
Education is what you learn after you leave school.
Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
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