Quotes About Education

No, not really," said rich dad. "If you want to learn to work for money, then stay in school. That is a great place to learn to do that. But if you want to learn how to have money work for you, then I will teach you that. But only if you want to learn.

More money seldom solves someone's money problems. Intelligence solves problems.

You want to know a little about a lot" was rich dad's suggestion.

Do you understand the difference in thinking?

Yet as a teacher, I recognized that it was excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. It broke my heart to see students know the answers, yet lack the courage to act on the answer. Often in the real world, it's not the smart who get ahead, but the bold.

In an educated society with a well-run government, prices should actually come down. Of course, that is often only true in theory. Prices go up because of greed and fear caused by ignorance. If schools taught people about money, there would be more money and lower prices. But schools only focus on teaching people how to work for money, not how to harness money's power.

The rich don't work for money.

In the E and S quadrants, discrimination does exist, especially in companies. Your looks, your education, your skin color, and your gender all count on the left side.

The more we knew about the power of money, the more distant we grew from the teachers and our classmates.

THE CONE OF LEARNING Edgar Dale gets credit for helping us to understand that we learn best through action—doing the real thing or a simulation. Sometimes it's called experiential learning. Dale and his Cone of Learning tell us that reading and lecture are the least effective ways to learn. And yet we all know how most schools teach: reading and lecture.

Without this financial knowledge, which I call financial intelligence or financial IQ, my road to financial independence would have been much more difficult.

Invertir no significa comprar, tiene que ver en realidad con tener conocimiento.

The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal. The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for the poor.

Education and wisdom about money are important. Start early. Buy a book. Go to a seminar. Practice. Start small. I turned $5,000 cash into a one-million-dollar asset producing $5,000 a month cash flow in less than six years. But I started learning as a kid. I encourage you to learn, because it's not that hard. In fact, it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

It does not take money to make money. It takes words. The difference between a rich person and a poor person is the person's vocabulary.

My rich dad taught me about systems and how to be a leader of people, not a manager of people.

What would solve the problem? His brain, Mike's dad told him. He wanted Robert to learn how money worked so he could make it work for him. He was also glad that Robert was angry, because anger combines with love to create passion—a key component of learning.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Instead of paying us money, rich dad had given us so much more.

Most people work hard to get a secure job, focusing on pay and benefits in the short term. What they should do is seek work that will teach them the skills they'll need. Are people looking to where they're headed or just until their next paycheck?

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.'" 20 YEARS AGO TODAY...

Investing involves risk (something that's inevitable and can only be controlled not extinguished). Being financially uneducated is risky.

struggled to save a few dollars. The other created investments. One dad taught

He was grooming Mike and me. That