Robert Kiyosaki motivational quotes from his best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad will inspire you to become a successful entrepreneur and will give you the financial freedom everyone dreams about.
Robert Toru Kiyosaki is born on April 8, 1947, is an American businessman and author. Founder of Rich Global LLC and the Rich Dad Company, Kiyosaki is famous for his Rich Dad series.
He had made millions through his books and investment in different sectors. The Rich Dad company is a private financial education company that provides personal finance and business education to people through their books and videos. The company’s main revenue is generated by the seminars hosted by individuals using their brand name.
In his speeches and talks, he had shared that he had attended the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York and graduated as a deck officer in 1969. Doing the job in the tanker office as the third mate, he resigned from there after 6 months to join the Marine Corps, where he was a helicopter gunship pilot at the time of the Vietnam War in 1972, for which he was awarded an Air Medal.
In 1974, he was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and became a salesman. There, he started his business in the retailing industry which was successful at first but filed for bankruptcy later.
He again invested in the business but that was also filed for bankruptcy. At that time, he was so poor that he had to live in his car with his girlfriend for months but he did not give up.
After getting failed in the retail business, Kiyosaki decided to work in the real estate industry and he got success there due to his hard work. Started his business with small investments, he eventually developed a multimillion-dollar real estate empire and now he owns more than 1400 houses.
Robert Kiyosaki has complied all of the experiences and wisdom he had gained in his best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad that has sold millions of copies and is one of the best financial books to this date.
Rich Dad Poor Dad was published in 1997. It explains how important it is to have a good philosophy regarding money. It is explained in this book that how rich parents instilled good habits in their kids than poor parents and how the habits of rich parents can be learned.
The book covers many tactics to become rich by investing your money in the business including real estate. Kiyosaki believed that anyone can be rich despite their rich or poor background if only they have the desire and are willing to do hard work.
In his speeches and books, he always tells that you have to understand the market before investing in it and his books teach that all. He states that board games like monopoly can teach a person and increase their ability to think about finance. He had published so many books on the topic of personal finance and business. Here is the list of some of his best-selling books.
Best Robert Kiyosaki Books
- Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom
- Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest In, That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money
- Rich Dad’s Before You Quit Your Job
- Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
- Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money
- The Business of the 21st Century
- The Real Book of Real Estate: Real Experts. Real Stories. Real Life
- Rich Dad’s Retire Young Retire Rich
- Second Chance: for Your Money, Your Life and Our World
As of 2021, Robert Kiyosaki has a net worth of 100 million dollars.
Married to Kim Kiyosaki in 1994, they lived in Phoenix, Arizona, and separated in 2017 later. Robert confirmed the separation on June 10 2021 in an interview.
Here we are sharing a collection of Robert Kiyosaki motivational quotes from his best selling Rich Dad Poor Dad book
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
“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!”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Most people never win because they’re more afraid of losing.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Some people are terrified of snakes. Some people are terrified about losing money.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“The main reason that over 90 percent of the American public struggles financially is because they play not to lose. They don’t play to win.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“If you work for money, you give the power to you employer. If money works for you, you keep the power and control it.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Only fools expect everything to go the way they want. Expecting”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“Many people will not head down the street until all the lights are green. That is why they don’t go anywhere.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“Your mind is infinite, it’s your doubts that are limiting.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, The Business of the 21st Century
“We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You can’t have success without failure.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
Robert T. Kiyosaki Quotes
“Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Busy people are often the most lazy.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“The person becomes attached to the vehicle and then fails to see all the other investment vehicles and procedures available.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“In the words of Albert Einstein: “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Don’t work for the money let the money work for you.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Wealth is a person’s ability to survive so many number of days forward — or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive?”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Often in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“How can I afford it?” opened up the brain and forced it to think and search for answers.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind. Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes By Robert Kiyosaki
“The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“The path is the goal.” In other words, finding your path in life is your goal in life.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth seemingly instantaneously. An untrained mind can also create extreme poverty that can crush a family for generations.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“But that is not how life teaches you, and I would say that life is the best teacher of all. 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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes About Money
“In the big picture, life is not about grades. Life is about what you choose to study.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“I think of money only as a medium of exchange. In reality, money by itself has very little value. So as soon as I have money, I want to exchange it for something of real value. The irony is that many people who cling desperately to money spend that money on things of very little value—and that is why they are poor.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself …”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“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
“If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Remember that anything important can’t really be learned in the classroom. It must be learned by taking action, making mistakes, and then correcting them. That’s when wisdom sets in.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“There is an old cliché that goes: “Job is an acronym for ‘Just Over Broke.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
Rich Dad Poor Dad Best Quotes By Robert Kiyosaki
“Cynics criticize, and winners analyze”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“A doctor, wanting more money to better provide for his family, raises his fees. By raising his fees, it makes health care more expensive for everyone. It hurts the poor people the most, so they have worse health than those with money. Because the doctors raise their fees, the attorneys raise their fees. Because the attorneys’ fees have gone up, schoolteachers want a raise, which raises our taxes, and on and on and on. Soon there will be such a horrifying gap between the rich and the poor that chaos will break out and another great civilization will collapse. History proves that great civilizations collapse when the gap between the haves and have-nots is too great.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they’re more afraid of losing.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“In today’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Asking for advice means, “Tell me what to do.” Seeking education means, “Tell me what to study so I can learn what I need to do.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes
“Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it’s easy.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, ‘Is there another way?”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“At the point the money hits your hands, you have the power to determine your financial future.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Money is just an idea.”
― Robert T Kiyosaki
“Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Leadership is what you need to learn next”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald’s?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald’s makes more money than you?” The”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki Motivational Quotes
“To spend your life living in fear, never exploring your dreams is cruel. To work hard for money, thinking that it will buy you things that will make you happy is also cruel. To wake up in the middle of the night terrified about paying bills is a horrible way to live. To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really living a life. Thinking that a job makes you secure is lying to yourself. That’s cruel, and that’s a trap I want you to avoid…” — rich dad poor dad”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“A reason or a purpose is a combination of “wants” and “don’t wants”.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“more money will often not solve the problem. In fact, it may compound the problem. Money often makes obvious our tragic human flaws, putting a spotlight on what we don’t know. That is why, all too often, a person who comes into a sudden windfall of cash—let’s say an inheritance, a pay raise, or lottery winnings—soon returns to the same financial mess, if not worse, than the mess they were in before.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Success is a poor teacher”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant
“FOCUS – Follow One Course Until Successful”
― Robert Kiyosaki, Why We Want You To Be Rich
“There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say ‘what happened?”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it, and play to win.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes About Success
“Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Know a little about a lot.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
“Stop blaming me, thinking I’m the problem. If you think I’m the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. 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, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies – 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer – 90% use debt to get poorer.”
― Robert Kiyosaki, Why We Want You To Be Rich
“There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Most people have a price. And they have a price because of human emotions named fear and greed. First, the fear of being without money motivates us to work hard, and then once we get that paycheck, greed or desire starts us thinking about all the wonderful things money can buy. A pattern is then set: get up, go to work, pay bills, get up, go to work, pay bills… Their lives are then run forever by two emotions, fear and greed. Offer them more money, and they continue the cycle by also increasing their spending. This is what I call the Rat Race.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not in school. Most of us learn about money from our parents. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say “Stay in school and study hard.” The child may graduate with excellent grades but with a poor person’s financial programming and mind-set. It was learned while the child was young.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the Rat Race.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki Famous Quotes
“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
“To know a little about a lot.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“In today’s fast-changing world, it’s not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Choosing what we think rather than a reaction to our emotions. ”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over.
That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. THE FEAR OF BEING DIFFERENT PREVENTS MOST PEOPLE FROM SEEKING NEW WAYS TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes On Network Marketing And Real Estate
“I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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. I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the
economy or their boss. Sadly they fail to realize that they might be the problem. 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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won’t quit.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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. ”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“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 man.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“The love of money is the root of all evil.”
The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
― Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Children About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Don’t
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