As a motivational speaker, Robert Kiyosaki has devoted himself to changing the way that people acquire wealth. His reputation is based on his success as founder of the Rich Dad Company and his many books, including the Rich Dad Poor Dad series. These books are international bestsellers. He has a wide range of other financial interests, so he has years of entrepreneurial experience to call upon. He also spent time as a young man in the US Marine Corps and served in Vietnam during the conflict there.
His fame, however, rests on his reputation as a financial guru. Kiyosaki has established himself as one of the most influential motivators of our time. While a lot of what he says is related to finance and the creation of wealth, he also has a body of Robert Kiyosaki quotes that concern lifestyle, ambition, and personal improvement.
Robert Kiyosaki firmly believes in the power of knowledge. While accepting that formal education is essential, he is convinced that the process of learning goes on through a one’s whole life. From experience, he says, we all learn. We learn from mistakes that we make, and we learn from observing others. For Kiyosaki, the most successful people are those who are curious, who question everything, who demand to know more, and who see every chance to learn as an opportunity to be grabbed.
Kiyosaki is a great believer in action. He urges those who seek success to take action towards achieving it now. Don’t put off until tomorrow what you need to do now to move forward. Success does not come to those that wait. Success comes to those who act, work hard, and don’t lose sight of their ambition. Action creates the energy that spurs you on to further action.
Robert Kiyosaki preaches that no-one should fear change. Change often is good and should be embraced. Opportunities come from change, and the knowledgeable person will spot them and use them to their advantage.
Kiyosaki has little time for excuses. Don’t, he says, blame others or blame circumstances, for your lack of ambition or inability to act. He maintains that it is you, not others, who get in your way. It is too easy to find a reason not to do something. Instead, concentrate on the positive reasons for doing what you want. Do not be a slave to the word “can’t.”
Part of Kiyosaki’s financial advice is that everyone should learn about finance themselves so that they can act from a position of knowledge. Do not accept blindly what others advise. Gain understanding, and then you have the power to make decisions yourself, not those that others force upon you.
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.
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There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.
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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!
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The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.
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It’s more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It’s more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
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The faster you can make a decision the more likely you’ll be able to seize opportunities—before someone else does.
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The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They’re always learning. They’re always growing. They’re always pushing.
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Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, ‘Wake up. There’s something I want you to learn.
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Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.
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I’ve learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself. And if things must change, first I must change.
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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.
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Rich dad explained this point of view over and over, which I call lesson number one: The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.
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Buying or building assets that deliver cash flow is putting your money to work for you. High-paying jobs mean two things: you’re working for money and the taxes you pay will probably increase.
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Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.
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Be truthful about your emotions and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.
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The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.
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A job is a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
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Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
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If you don’t first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you’ll only be a highly paid slave.
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Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They’re always learning.
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Money is the carrot, the illusion. If the donkey could see the whole picture, it might rethink its choice to chase the carrot.
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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.
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The rich know that money is an illusion.
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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.
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Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
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Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.
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Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.
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The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.
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An asset puts money in my pocket. A liability takes money out of my pocket.
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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.
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If your pattern is to spend everything you get, most likely an increase in cash will just result in an increase in spending.
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I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.
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An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.
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The most successful people are mavericks who aren’t afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it’s obvious.
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Most people must keep their job and rely on their wages to fund their acquisition of assets.
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Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy.
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Wealth is the measure of the cash flow from the asset column compared with the expense column.
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The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.
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When there are enough assets to generate more than enough income to cover expenses, the balance is reinvested into assets.
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Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.
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When your assets generate enough income to cover your expenses, you are wealthy, even if you are not yet rich.
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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.
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The rich focus on their asset columns while everyone else focuses on their income statements.
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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.
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Too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else’s business and making that person rich.
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The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time.
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If I have to work there, it’s not a business. It becomes my job.
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Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that’s fine; learn from it & don’t make it again.
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Keep your daytime job, but start buying real assets, not liabilities.
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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 person.
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Think of it this way: Once a dollar goes into your asset column, it becomes your employee. The best thing about money is that it works 24 hours a day and can work for generations.
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Money is really just an idea.
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An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.
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Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.
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The old-money people, the long-term rich, build their asset column first. Then the income generated from the asset column buys their luxuries. The poor and middle class buy luxuries with their own sweat, blood, and children’s inheritance.
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The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.
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With money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiply.
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You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.
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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.
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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.
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Often in the real world, it’s not the smart who get ahead, but the bold.
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Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won’t quit.
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If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed.
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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.
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If your hunch is wrong, and what you’ve been counting on doesn’t happen, how can you turn a lemon into millions? That is financial intelligence.
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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.
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People who avoid failure also avoid success.
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Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.
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Take risks, be bold, let your genius convert that fear into power and brilliance—advice that will terrify some, because so many play it safe when it comes to their money.
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The power of “can’t”: The word “can’t” makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
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Financial intelligence is simply having more options, figuring out ways to create opportunities or altering situations to work in your favor.
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One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.
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Simple math and common sense are all you need to do well financially.
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Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
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Job security meant everything to my educated dad. Learning meant everything to my rich dad.
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Start small and dream big.
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Job is an acronym for ‘Just Over Broke’
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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.
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I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn.
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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.
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The ability to sell—to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child—is the base skill of personal success.
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If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.
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The most important law of money: ‘Give, and you shall receive.’
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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.
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People are so afraid of losing that they lose.
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Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.
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If you have any desire to be rich, you must focus. Do not do what poor and middle-class people do: put their few eggs in many baskets. Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Successful.
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In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
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A savvy investor knows that the seemingly worst of times is actually the best of times to make money.
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Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man’s attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.
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I wanted to be free by age 40, but it took me until I was 47, with many learning experiences along the way. As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t. But it wasn’t that hard either. I’ve learned that, without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.
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F.O.C.U.S – Follow One Course Until Successful.
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Invest first in education. In reality, the only real asset you have is your mind, the most powerful tool we have dominion over.
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Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.
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A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas.
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I find so many people struggling, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were; they resist change. Old ideas are their biggest liability. It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday, yesterday is gone.
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Wise investors buy an investment when it’s not popular. They know their profits are made when they buy, not when they sell.
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The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.
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I would venture to say that personal self-discipline is the number-one delineating factor between the rich, the poor, and the middle class.
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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.
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The rich know that savings are only used to create more money, not to pay bills.
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Find out where you are at, where you are going and build a plan to get there.
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I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride.
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Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else.
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People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.
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All the Robert Kiyosaki quotes repeated here will make you think. They will also make you act. There is a fund of positivity in these quotes, as Robert Kiyosaki believes that when we have a dream, we have to get up and take action to pursue that dream. Read his thoughts and follow his advice to achieve your vision. Success is waiting for you.