Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

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

I know how to make money. That's what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

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

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.

If you want to be a rich person... don't let the poor person inside of you do your talking.

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

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

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

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

If you fail, learn, and move on, you're growing.

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

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

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

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money.

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

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

You need to have the courage to fail.

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

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

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

I've traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.

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

What you think is real is your reality.

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; “I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.

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

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.

If I lost my job, I'd get a job at McDonald's.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

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.

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.

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.

By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.

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

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich

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

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

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

Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

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