Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

A person can be highly educated, professionally successful, and financially illiterate.

Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth.

The primary difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they manage fear.

Failure inspires winners. Failure defeats losers.

Cash flow tells the story of how a person handles money.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing.

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.

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.

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.

I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education.

Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

There is always a risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to play it, and play to win.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.

It’s fear that keeps most people working at a job: the fear of not paying their bills, the fear of being fired, the fear of not having enough money, and the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money – and then get angry at their boss.

An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

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.

In today’s fast-changing world, it’s not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

It is not gambling if you know what you’re doing. It is gambling if you’re just throwing money into a deal and praying.

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

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them.

People’s lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

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

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they’re more afraid of losing.

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

We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.

If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

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

Skills make you rich, not theories.

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

If you’re still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you’re losing.

People who lack internal fortitude often become victims of those who have self-discipline.

It’s what is in your head that determines what is in your hands.

Proper physical exercise increases your chances for health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth.

Financial struggle is often directly the result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Mind your business. Don’t spend your whole life working for someone else.