Robert Kiyosaki

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

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.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. 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.

Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you

Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.

In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich.

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Don't invest in what you don't know. Learn first then invest.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run, rich dad suggested I write down all the mistakes I made and then seek help. If I made accounting mistakes, I talked to an accountant. If there was a legal mistake, I talked to an attorney. That was my way out. That is how I got smarter.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.