Quotes from Robert Kiyosaki

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

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.

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

People without leverage work for those with leverage.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

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.

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.