Quotes from Robert T. Kiyosaki

If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.

Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it's easy.

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.

How can I afford it?" opened up the brain and forced it to think and search for answers.

Many people will not head down the street until all the lights are green. That is why they don't go anywhere.

Often in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they're more afraid of losing.

Winston Churchill once said: Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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.

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.

In the words of Albert Einstein: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

If your financial intelligence is low, money will run all over you. It will be smarter than you. If money is smarter than you, you will work for it all your life. To be the master of money, you need to be smarter than it. Then money will do as it is told. It will obey you. Instead of being a slave to it, you will be the master of it. That is financial intelligence.

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.

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.

Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Your mind is infinite, it's your doubts that are limiting.

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.

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.

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.

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

Land was wealth 300 years ago. So the person who owned the land owned the wealth. Then, it was factories and production, and America rose to dominance. The industrialist owned the wealth. Today, it is information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

In the big picture, life is not about grades. Life is about what you choose to study.

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.