Quotes About Independence

America was founded out of tax protest. Have they forgotten the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773?

If you do what the masses do, you get the following picture:

Businesses that do not require my presence I own them, but they are managed or run by other people. If I have to work there, it's not a business. It becomes my job. • Stocks • Bonds • Income-generating real estate • Notes (IOUs) • Royalties from intellectual property such as music, scripts, and patents • Anything else that has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market

In 1994, I retired. I was 47, and my wife Kim was 37. Retirement does not mean not working. For us, it means that, barring unforeseen cataclysmic changes, we can work or not work, and our wealth grows automatically, staying ahead of inflation. Our assets are large enough to grow by themselves. It's like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn't need you anymore. Its roots are implanted deep enough. Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.

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.

and was free to go about doing what I wanted to do.

Rich Dad's Lesson #1: "The rich don't work for money.

Kim was the first woman I met who was willing to entertain such a crazy thought.

Otherwise, keep your day job and mind your own business.

The previous chapter presented diagrams illustrating that most people work for everyone but themselves. They work first for the owners of the company, then for the government through taxes, and finally for the bank that owns their mortgage.

My highly educated dad always encouraged me to land a good job with a strong corporation. He spoke of the virtues of "working your way up the corporate ladder." He didn't understand that, by relying solely on a paycheck from a corporate employer, I would be a docile cow ready for milking.

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If money works for you, you keep the power and control it.

You said you wanted to learn. If you don't learn this now, you'll grow up to be like the two women and the older man sitting in my living room, working for money and hoping I don't fire them.

you want to be rich, you need to think independently rather than go along with the crowd.

Éste es el mayor problema de tener un empleo, que no es un activo. No lo puedes vender en eBay, no lo puedes rentar ni recibir dividendos por él. Entonces, ¿para qué pasar décadas, los mejores años de tu vida, trabajando para construir algo que no es un activo? O, para describirlo con mayor precisión, ¿para construir el activo de alguien más y no el tuyo?

It's like planting a tree. You water it for years, and then one day it doesn't need you anymore. Its roots are implanted deep enough. Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.

My highly educated dad always encouraged me to land a good job with a strong corporation. He spoke of the virtues of "working your way up the corporate ladder." He didn't understand that, by relying solely on a paycheck from a corporate employer, I would be a docile cow ready for milking. When I told my rich dad of my father's advice, he only chuckled. "Why

Once your passive and portfolio income exceed your expenses, the ratio would be one or higher, and you would be out of the Rat Race.

Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in your own. After all, I believe in myself. I'm not so bad and silly as they think me, and I'm not consumptive, and I can write. Now that I've written it all out I feel differently about it. The only thing that still aggravates me is that Miss Potter pitied me -- pitied by a Potter!

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.