Quotes from Robert Kiyosaki

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; "I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.

Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.

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

Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.

I don't like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

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