“Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.”
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Does God say, “cut back on the sunsets?” No, our Maker is abundant.”
“Preparing a child for the world of tomorrow is one of the most important roles a parent plays in a child’s life.”
“The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people.”
“People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.”
“No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.”
“If you want to get richer quicker, then solve bigger problems!”
“The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble – if you still have a job. And you know what? I’ve been saying it for years.”
“People, who live below their means, save for a rainy day – the price is a cheap life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money; but at the end of the process, they are still cheap; so they have made money their God.”
“The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.”
“One of the things I didn’t like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.”
“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.”
“Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.”
“Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.”
“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.”
“By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.”
“Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.”
“In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.”
“I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.”
“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”
“When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.”
“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.”
“I’m not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama’s going to make it even worse. So, it’s basically highway robbery, and I think it’s a tragedy.”
“Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.”
“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.”
“A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.”
“Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong.”
“Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.”
“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.”
“If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.”
“To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person.”
“With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money.”
“I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn’t my environment.”
“Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.”
“Texans don’t bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners.”
“Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission.”
“Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.”
“I think it’s a tragedy that our schools don’t teach kids about money. I think it’s a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.”
“You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.”
“Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.”
“Taxes punish those who produce and reward those who don’t produce.”
“If you had seen me back in high school, there’s no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We live in a global community and we can’t really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view.”
“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.”
“The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance.”
“Making money and making the world a better place are not contrary to one another.”
“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.”
“Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.”
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