Confidence comes from discipline and training.
Robert Kiyosaki
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
When people are lame, they love to blame.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
Education is what you learn after you leave school.
I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
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.
You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.
I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.
The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.
Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's 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.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
Quitting is the easiest thing to do.
Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.
People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.
If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.
Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
I'm a cash flow guy. If it doesn't make me money today, forget about it.
Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.
I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
