Quotes About Investing

If the market suddenly goes up to $62 per share, the investor has the right to still buy his or her shares at $52. If the market goes down to $42, the investor has the right to sell his or her shares at $48, minimizing the loss.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

True, I have lost money on many occasions, but I only play with money I can afford to lose.

collars or straddles are used to protect both the up- and the downside risks and opportunities.

concentrate your efforts on buying income-generating assets.

When someone shorts a stock, that literally means they are selling something they do not own.

If you want to be rich, you need to be financially literate.

sell. The key to being a great investor is to be neutral to winning and losing. Then

These are the people who most often say, "Investing is risky." For them, it is risky, but not because investing is risky. It is their lack of knowledge and formal financial training that makes investing risky.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

options have been used as insurance policies, which is why most people buy options.

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

future. After The Worldly Philosophers, I recommend reading The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, Paul Zane Pilzer's Unlimited Wealth, James Dale Davidson's The Sovereign Individual, Robert Preacher's The Crest of the Wave, and Harry Dent's The Great Depression Ahead.

History proves that 85 percent of all options expire without being exercised.

So for most people, the reason they don't win financially is because the pain of losing money is far greater than the joy of being rich. Another

Most people dream of being rich, but are terrified of losing money. So they never get to heaven. Rich

While most people do retire on portfolio income

Robert T. Kiyosaki

the poor and middle class invest in mutual funds and the rich invest in hedge funds.

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.

Robert holds a small portion of his assets in tax-lien certificates instead of CDs. Others tell him he shouldn't do this, but they're coming from a place of doubt. They've never done it, and they're telling someone who's doing it why they shouldn't. The lowest yield Robert looks for is 16 percent, but people who are filled with doubt are willing to accept a far lower return. Doubt is expensive.

Other people pay for my liabilities. They're called tenants.

In America, one of the advantages of investing in real estate over paper assets is this legal loophole in the tax code.

Always remember: Profits are made in the buying, not in the selling.