Inspiring Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki
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If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich.

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.

Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not become rich.

Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.

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

If you change your thoughts you can change your actions.

The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all.

Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.

Enjoy the time you have with your friends and family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system's failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

Financial independence is about having more choices.

If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence.

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

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

The right decisions come from the right focus. You'll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.

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

If you want to get richer quicker, then solve bigger problems!

The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.

Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.

You cannot be successful without failure.

You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve.

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

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. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

When we're passionate about something, we innovate, create, and continue on with our dreams.

Successful people ask questions. They seek new teachers. They're always learning.

I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness.

Money is a powerful force. don't use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life.

I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

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

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

People who pay the price for security may never really feel secure rather the more their insecurity grows inside them because they are paying the price for action but not their internal reaction.

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

The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.

If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers.

Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

Rich dad has taught me You can't do it doesn't necessarily mean you can't. It more often means they can't.

My Rich Dad said, 'All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.'

My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.

Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

You can always quit, so why quit now.

Skills make you rich, not theories.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team.

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle
class. The decision is up to you.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

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.

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.

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

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.

Inside each of us is a David and a Goliath.

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.

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.

A winning strategy must include losing.

When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.

What you think is real is your reality.

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.

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

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.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Business and investing are team sports.

If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.