"It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game."
Businessman, Author
Robert Kiyosaki is a financial educator and author known for his book 'Rich Dad Poor Dad,' which advocates for financial literacy and independence.
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"It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game."
"People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency."
"The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left."
"Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first."
"I'm often asked how to start investing with little or no money. Please hear this as this is the hardest thing for people to understand: you do NOT invest with money! You invest with your mind! No matter what the field, your biggest asset is your mind. Once you have knowledge, you find deals, find your team and use other people’s money. You sell the deal and your team to get investment money."
"God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does."
"Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone."
"Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it"
"Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs"
"Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve."
"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!"
"The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money...but never learn to have money work for them."
"The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most."
"Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them"
"Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket."
"No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path."
"In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk."
"If you want to be rich, simply serve more people."
"Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else."
"We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward."