Robert Kiyosaki

Don’t work for money; make it work for you.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Robert Kiyosaki

Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers.

Robert Kiyosaki

As entrepreneurs, it’s important to be winners.

Robert Kiyosaki

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

Start small and dream big.

Robert Kiyosaki

There are three very important money skills that everyone should possess: how to earn money, how to manage it and how to invest it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Your business revolves around your asset column, as opposed to your income column. The rich focus on their asset columns while the poor and middle class focus on their income columns.

Robert Kiyosaki

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

There´s good debt and there´s bad debt. Bad debt is debt you have to pay for and makes you poor. If I use credit cards to buy new shoes it makes me poor. Good debt makes me rich and someone else pays for it. One example: I´m closing on a $ 17 million property and financing $ 14 million. That $ 14 million is good debt. It makes me richer every month by putting $ 20.000 in my pocket.

Robert Kiyosaki

The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time. The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

Robert Kiyosaki

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

Robert Kiyosaki

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Robert Kiyosaki

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

Robert Kiyosaki

Many people confuse their profession with their business. To become financially secure people need to mind their own business.

Robert Kiyosaki

All of these skills were important for my success.

Robert Kiyosaki

We flew to win. Before every flight, I would remind my crew that our job was not to give our lives for our country.

Robert Kiyosaki

Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Do today what you want for your tomorrow.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you aren’t practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur.

Robert Kiyosaki

The single best piece of advice I can give is this: Be careful what financial advice you listen to. Most financial advice—such as “save money,” “get out of debt,” “invest for the long term” and “diversify”—is fine for the middle class or the poor. It’s not good advice if you want to be rich because it is obsolete advice. For example, in 1971 the U.S. went off the gold standard and the U.S. dollar became a currency and . . . currencies are designed to lose money. That’s why today, “save money” is bad advice.

Robert Kiyosaki

Am I a coward or not?

Robert Kiyosaki

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

Robert Kiyosaki

Do today what you want for your tomorrows.

Robert Kiyosaki

Mariners actually lost people in the way. It was what was called a battle standard.

Robert Kiyosaki

You need to understand the difference between an asset and a liability. An asset puts money in your pocket and a liability takes money from your pocket. The rich understand the difference and buy assets, not liabilities.

Robert Kiyosaki

In the Industrial Age the ticket for success was to go to school, get good grades, and find a safe secure job for life. You did not have to worry about your financial education because the company and the government would take care of you financially once your working days were over. The rules have changed. You can no longer rely on your employer or your government to take care of you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Today, we are in the Information Age and more than job security we all need financial security. Unfortunately, our school system teaches us little about the subject of money. Our children will be required to learn much more than we ever did, and much more than schools are prepared to teach them. Cash flow management is an essential life skill and a skill that will require more and more sophistication as we move further into the Information Age.

Robert Kiyosaki

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Robert Kiyosaki

Savers are losers.

Robert Kiyosaki

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Robert Kiyosaki

The Tax Code of the United States provides many vehicles for people to save on their taxes. Most of these vehicles are available to anyone but it is the rich who usually look for them and use them because they have learned to “mind their own business.” For example an individual can utilize the tax advantages and protection provided by a corporation to get rich much faster than someone who is an employee or a small-business sole proprietor.

Robert Kiyosaki

Your mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely.

Robert Kiyosaki

I wanted to validate the parent’s most important role of teaching their children. It’s not something you want to leave up to the school system. Ultimately, right or wrong, the parent is the child’s most important teacher.

Robert Kiyosaki

“The poor and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them,” he would say to me. The rich buy or create assets that work for them so they don’t have to.

Robert Kiyosaki

My parents were very active in my education, otherwise I would have flunked out. I would have been a juvenile delinquent probably.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Robert Kiyosaki

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Robert Kiyosaki

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Robert Kiyosaki

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 Kiyosaki

Work to learn–don’t work for money. To become successful you must learn how to manage cash flow, systems and people. Being in the Marines taught me leadership and working in sales for Xerox taught me how to sell and how to accept rejection. All of these skills were important for my success. Look for jobs that can help you develop the skills of managing cash flow, systems and people rather than just pay you well.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you’re going to be successful in business, you have to find a place to develop character. The Marine Corps did that for me. The toughness, the discipline, the training – it carries on, and it made a man out of me.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Robert Kiyosaki

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Robert Kiyosaki

The values or points of view between the middle class and the rich are exactly opposite.

Robert Kiyosaki

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Robert Kiyosaki

In business, they say, “If you aren’t the lead dog, the view is the same.” They also say, “Second place is the first loser.”

Robert Kiyosaki

The rich focus on their asset columns while the poor and middle class focus on their income columns.

Robert Kiyosaki

Money is a base subject.

Robert Kiyosaki

The rich invent money.

Robert Kiyosaki

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

Robert Kiyosaki

My poor dad would say, “I can’t afford it,” while my rich dad would say, “How can I afford it?”

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them.

Robert Kiyosaki

There have never been more opportunities to become rich in the last 10 years. And there’ll be even more opportunities in the next 10.

Robert Kiyosaki

My investment career had begun. More important, I was training my brain to see what most people don’t see.

Robert Kiyosaki

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich, which I guess is why there are more critics in the world than rich people.

Robert Kiyosaki

Many entrepreneurs fail to grow because they lack leadership skills. And rather than look in the mirror, they find it easier to blame others. Blame is short for be-lame, and you can’t be an effective leader if you’re lame.

Robert Kiyosaki

Being in the Marines taught me leadership.

Robert Kiyosaki

First was the mission, second was the team, and personal interests came last.

Robert Kiyosaki

This doesn’t mean you have to go to military school or be on active duty to grow a business. I’m only pointing out the different focuses of two very different educational institutions and saying that if you want to grow your business, it may take more than just business skills

Robert Kiyosaki

Look for jobs that can help you develop the skills of managing cash flow, systems and people rather than just pay you well.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Robert Kiyosaki

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

Robert Kiyosaki