Top 100 Robert T Kiyosaki Quotes
#1. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets.
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#2. The only person who determines the thoughts you choose to believe about yourself, is you.
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#3. A reason or a purpose is a combination of "wants" and "don't wants".
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#4. Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.
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#5. My best advice is to prepare daily to be bigger than your smallness. In my opinion, the reason most people stop and turn back from their dreams is because the tiny person found inside each of us wields more power than our bigger person.
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#6. I just don't like mutual funds. I think they're a rip-off.
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#7. The sophisticated investor's first question is: "How fast do I get my money back?
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#8. 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.
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#9. The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.
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#10. If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won't try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't help you move forward.
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#11. Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward - or, if I stopped working today, how long could I survive?
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#12. Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.
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#13. Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.
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#14. To be truly rich, we need to be able to give as well as to receive.
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#15. Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times - for all the right reasons - but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.
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#16. Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
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#17. Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.
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#18. Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
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#19. Finding your path means finding out what you were put here on this earth to do. What is your life's purpose? Why were you given this gift called life? And what is the gift you give back to life?
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#20. Think of something new you've actually learned in the past week; if you can't think of anything, get comfortable where you're at because you're not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.
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#21. So many people operate in a world of right and wrong [that] they become polarized. You're conservative or you're liberal; and if you're one or the other, you can't be both. I just think that this idea of right and wrong is kind of a damaging idea.
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#22. Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you've learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON'T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE!
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#24. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.
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#25. If you took all of my money away, I would have it right back. I don't really care about money. I mean I do but why worry about it because I can make my own money all the time.
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#26. People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich will make them rich. In most cases it doesn't. It only makes them more tired. They call it 'Keeping up with the Joneses.' And if you notice, the Joneses are exhausted.
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#27. Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation
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#28. Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
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#30. The "hot money" flowed into Europe and today once rich and powerful nations like Ireland, Greece, Italy, and Spain are financial basket cases that may not recover.
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#31. Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.
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#33. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
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#34. If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.
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#35. They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, 'Is there another way?
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#36. Don't buy luxuries until you've built the assets to afford them
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#37. The real skill is to manage and reward the people who are smarter than you in some technical area. That is why companies have a board of directors.
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#38. I believe in taking care of myself and teaching other people who want to learn. I don't believe in just printing money and giving money. I'm willing to teach those who are willing to learn. If you're not willing to learn, then go vote for Obama. I'm not Republican or Democrat, so don't get me wrong.
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#39. So when you're in doubt and feeling a little afraid, just do what Colonel Sanders did to his little chicken. He fried it.
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#40. It is not real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, or money that makes you rich; it is what you know about real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, and money that makes you rich. Ultimately, it is your financial intelligence that makes you rich.
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#41. The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn't start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!
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#42. Financially, with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future: to be rich, poor, or middle class.
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#43. When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.
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#46. In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.
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#47. Each dollar in my asset column was a great employee, working hard to make more employees and buy the boss a new Porsche.
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#48. Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.
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#50. If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.
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#51. Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
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#52. Life isn't fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don't need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.
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#53. Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.
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#55. Buying a luxury on credit often causes a person to eventually resent that luxury because the debt becomes a financial burden. After
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#56. Remember, the easy road often becomes hard, and the hard road often becomes easy.
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#57. One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: You can't do that.
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#58. Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they're more afraid of losing.
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#59. What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...
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#60. Many people will not head down the street until all the lights are green. That is why they don't go anywhere.
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#62. Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.
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#63. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.
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#64. Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves.
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#66. Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.
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#67. If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
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#69. Enjoy the time you have with your friends & family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.
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#70. In order to make bread, every baker follows a recipe, even if it's only held in their head.
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#71. The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.
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#72. If a child attempts to cooperate at test time, it is called 'cheating.' In the real world of business, business owners cooperate at test time, and in the world of business, every day is test time.
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#73. Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it's easy.
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#74. How can I afford it? opened up the brain and forced it to think and search for answers.
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#75. If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.
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#76. If you aren't practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur.
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#78. I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.
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#79. Even when you win you lose ... if you didn't learn something.
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#80. Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world. You must accept that opportunity is everywhere. Opportunity is all the time. It does not disappear in the difficult times, in fact it's even greater.
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#82. Words form thoughts, thoughts form realities, and realities become life.
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#83. We live in a global community and we can't really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view.
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#84. Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.
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#86. As Fuller stated, humanity's next evolutionary challenge is to learn to cooperate and solve our global problems.
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#87. The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.
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#88. You cannot teach a poor person to be rich until they change their context. Teaching a person with poor or middle class person's context is a waste of time ... and it does annoy them.
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#90. Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
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#91. My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'
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#92. Keep expenses low, reduce liabilities, and diligently build a base of solid assets.
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#93. find mentors who have already successfully made the crossing before.
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#94. A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.
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#95. Garret Sutton's books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations.
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#96. 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!
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#97. The person becomes attached to the vehicle and then fails to see all the other investment vehicles and procedures available.
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#98. Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.
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#99. Financial struggle is often the result of people working all their lives for someone else.
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#100. My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.
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