Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how its spoken.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I dont have one.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. Its a lesson Ive had to relearn quite a few times.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. Its really sad.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday shed pay a little toward the purchase.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. Thats because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. Theyre both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

If you want to thrive in todays economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

My company survives because Ive learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because Im the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a have-not, but I knew that I wasnt.

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, Your home is not an asset. Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

When my book Rich Dads Prophecy was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.