Quotes About Business

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

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

It's not about income, it's about assets that generate income.

Finding a good deal, the right business, the right people, the right investors, or whatever is just like dating. You must go to the market and talk to a lot of people, make a lot of offers, counteroffers, negotiate, reject, and accept.

If you are considering building your own business, you need to be acutely aware of who you're spending your time with and who your teachers are. It's a crucial consideration.

Rich dad explained to me that the hardest part of running a company is managing people.

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.

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

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

If you want more income, learn to sell.

The lesson: The increases in income are going to entrepreneurs and investors, not to employees—not to the people who work 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.

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?

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.

I just could not pass up these small deals.

My income is higher because I use the leverage of assets rather than the leverage of my labor.

By starting our own business, the comic-book library, we were in control of our own finances, not dependent on an employer. The best part was that our business generated money for us, even when we weren't physically there. Our money worked for us. Instead of paying us money, rich dad had given us so much more.

The earnings potential in the E and S quadrants is limited. The earnings potential in the B and I quadrants is infinite.

His profession is accounting, but his business is real estate.

A network? So if I want to become rich, I need to learn how to build a business network?" I queried.

Rule #1: You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.

How fast do I get my money back?

My first product, the nylon-and-Velcro wallet, was manufactured in the Far East and shipped to a warehouse in New York, near where I had gone to school.