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.
Robert KiyosakiRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Recognizing one's own faults is the first step to personal growth and wisdom.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and taking responsibility for one's own life. When individuals acknowledge that they are the source of their problems, they open themselves up to the opportunity for personal development and learning. By refraining from blaming others and focusing on self-improvement, one can gain wisdom and foster growth.
Themes
Self-AwarenessPersonal GrowthResponsibilityWisdomChange
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about personal development.
More from Robert Kiyosaki
All quotes βIn the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.
Robert KiyosakiRead
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.
Robert KiyosakiRead
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
Robert KiyosakiRead
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.
Robert KiyosakiRead
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.
Robert KiyosakiRead
Similar quotes
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
SolomonRead
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William BlakeRead
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
Norman CousinsRead
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William DrummondRead
All promise outruns performance.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Andrew CarnegieRead