Top 500 Robert T. Kiyosaki Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

202. “Losers are those who are afraid of losing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

203. “Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I’m constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

204. “If you’re not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you’re thinking too small. Think team and systems.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

205. “Cynics criticize and winners analyze.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

206. “You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

207. “A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

208. “If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

209. “There are always going to be skeptics. Prove them wrong.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

210. “Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

211. “Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It’s too easy to settle.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

213. “Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

214. “You can tell a person’s past, present and future by listening to the words they use.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

215. “Job is an acronym for ‘Just Over Broke.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

216. “Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

217. “The harder you work for money, the more you are taxed, the harder your money works, the less it is taxed.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

218. “Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

219. “How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

220. “Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

221. “If you do not know how to care for money, money will stay away from you.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

222. “Making mistakes is natural. Making mistakes is how we learn.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

223. “Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

224. “The world has changed, but education has not changed with it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

225. “Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

227. “It is easier to invest for cash flow during a financial crisis. So don’t waste a good crisis by hiding your head in the sand. The longer the crisis lasts, the richer some people will become.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

228. “A winning strategy must include losing.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

229. “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.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

230. “Most people work all week to get to the weekend. A few work all weekend for years to get to freedom.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

231. “Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That’s what an asset is.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

232. “Whatever you want in life, you’ve got to give away first.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

233. “It’s the investor who is risky, not the investment.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

234. “Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

235. “What you don’t know keeps you poor.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

236. “At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

237. “The greatest cause of human financial struggle is the fear of losing money.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

238. “The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

239. “One of the reasons people aren’t rich is because almost everyone has more excuses than money.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

240. “I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

241. “If you don’t first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you’ll only be a highpay slave.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

242. “In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, ‘Your home is not an asset.’ Real estate agents sent me hate mail.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

244. “I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

245. “The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn’t laziness or bad luck, it’s comfort.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

246. “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.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

247. “I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

249. “A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

250. “Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan – create ten businesses.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki