Quotes from Robert T. Kiyosaki

Why in the world would someone say, 'I can't afford it' or 'I can't do it' to something they want? Why would someone deny themselves the things they want? It makes no logical sense.

Whenever you find yourself avoiding something you know you should be doing, then the only thing to ask yourself is, "What's in it for me?" Be a little greedy. It's the best cure for laziness.

Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Remember, the easy road often becomes hard, and the hard road often becomes easy.

For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.

Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you've learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON'T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE!

Poor people have poor habits.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability to convert earned income into passive and/or portfolio income.

Does teaching mean talking or a lecture?" rich dad asked. "Well, yes," I replied. "That's how they teach you in school," he said, smiling. "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.

Finding your path means finding out what you were put here on this earth to do. What is your life's purpose? Why were you given this gift called life? And what is the gift you give back to life?

It's not what we say out loud that determines our lives. It's what we whisper to ourselves that has the most power.

most of us can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's, but few of us can build a better business system than McDonald's.

So whenever I hear people focusing on their I-don't-wants, rather than what they do want, I know the noise in their head must be loud. Chicken Little has taken over their brain and is yelling, "The sky is falling, and toilets are breaking!" So they avoid their don't-wants, but they pay a huge price. They may never get what they want in life. Instead of analyzing, their inner Chicken Little closes their mind.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. That is why it is called 'maximum security.

the idea of being aware of whom you spend your time with and who your teachers are is a very important consideration.

B-quadrant businesses get tax credits for hiring employees, for increasing their research and development, and for investing in green technology.

Winston Churchill said, Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

He said it was better to work years at creating an asset rather than to spend your life working hard for money to create someone else's asset.

Whenever I feel that people aren't smiling at me, I simply begin smiling and saying hello. Like magic, the next thing I know I'm surrounded by smiling people. It is true that your world is only a mirror of you. So

Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth. Too many people think with their mouth instead of listening in order to absorb new ideas and possibilities. They argue instead of asking questions. I

As Henry Ford said, Thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.

I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

The person becomes attached to the vehicle and then fails to see all the other investment vehicles and procedures available.