Top 819 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Kiyosaki - Page 3

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn't start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.

You make more money if you're generous.

Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

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

The subprime disaster was a result of financial bombs - derivatives - exploding in financial institutions such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as banks and financial institutions throughout the world.

My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts.

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.

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.

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

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

In 'Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education' and 'Why A Students Work for C Students,' I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I'm a real estate guy.

Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

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

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

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.

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

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.

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.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

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

If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

Money has a language of its own.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

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

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.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.

Success is not a stop sign.

The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars in an attempt to prevent a global depression.