Quotes About Investment

A job is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

So if you want to be rich and maintain your wealth, it's important to be financially literate, in words as well as numbers. The

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

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.

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

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.

The sophisticated investor's first question is: "How fast do I get my money back?

An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket. This is really all you need to know.

They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich.

Invest first in education. In reality, the only real asset you have is your mind, the most powerful tool we have dominion over.

Time is one of your greatest assets.

Study hard so you can find a good company to buy.

Rich dad said that financial intelligence determined, not so much how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard that money works for you, and how many generations you can keep it.

Start minding your own business. Keep your daytime job, but start buying real assets, not liabilities.

There are legal Ponzi schemes and illegal Ponzi schemes. Social Security is a legal Ponzi scheme, as is the stock market.

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth.

You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

Business owners can go on vacation forever because they own a system, not a job. If the B is on vacation, the money still comes in.

The business behind the business is the real game. It's the business behind the business that makes money regardless of who wins the game or which way the market goes—up or down. It's the business that sells the tickets to the game. It does not buy the tickets.

Each dollar in my asset column was a great employee, working hard to make more employees and buy the boss a new Porsche.

For example, "1031" is jargon for Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, which allows a seller to delay paying taxes on a piece of real estate that is sold for a capital gain through an exchange for a more expensive piece of real estate. Real estate is one investment vehicle that allows such a great tax advantage.

There are business and investment opportunities coming that will create bigger fortunes than the automobile did for Henry Ford, oil did for John D. Rockefeller, computers did for Bill Gates, and the Internet did for the young founders of Yahoo, Google, and Facebook.

In times of great economic change, there are always great transfer of wealth. Even if you do not have much money, it is important to incest in your education... for when the changes come, you will be better prepared for them. Don't be caught unaware and afraid. As I said, no one can predict what will happen, yet it is best to be prepared for whatever happens. And that means getting educated now.