Explore Quotes by Robert Kiyosaki

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

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.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.

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

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

The most important job of the entrepreneur begins before there is a business or employees. The job of an entrepreneur is to design a business that can grow, employ many people, add value to its customers, be a responsible corporate citizen, bring prosperity to all those that work on the business, be charitable, and eventually no longer need the entrepreneur. Before there is a business, a successful entrepreneur is designing this type of business in his or her mind's eye. According my rich dad, this is the job of a true entrepreneur.

Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.

True passion attracts. If you have passion in your business, the right people will be attracted to your team.

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.