107 Robert Kiyosaki Quotes (RICH DAD POOR DAD)

In the realm of financial education and personal development, few names are as influential as Robert Kiyosaki. Known for his best-selling book “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” Kiyosaki’s wisdom extends beyond traditional finance, delving into the mindset, habits, and decision-making processes that lead to wealth and success.

These quotes are not just financial advice; they are valuable life lessons from a man who has revolutionized the way millions think about money and investing. They offer insights into entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and the multiple facets that form Kiyosaki’s philosophy of wealth creation.

Whether you’re an emerging entrepreneur, a seasoned investor, or simply someone seeking a richer understanding of life and money, these quotes will challenge your beliefs, broaden your perspective, and inspire you to take control of your financial destiny.

Top 15 Robert Kiyosaki Quotes on Money (CASHFLOW QUADRANT)

Rule #1: You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know. It is rule number one. It is the only rule.”
Robert Kiyosaki

An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

It’s more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It’s more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams. — It’s more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It’s more important to grow your spirit that cut your **dreams**.

The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time. — The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their **time**.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this - the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left. — The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich **invest** their **money** and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve. — Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the **dreams** money helps achieve.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them. — Academic qualifications are important and so is financial **education**. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something. — You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and **dream** of getting rich. You’ve done something.

Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say 'what happened?' — There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say ‘what happened?’

Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward. — Everyone can tell you the risk. An **entrepreneur** can see the reward.

I keep hearing ‘I’d rather be happy than be rich.’ Why not be both?

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.

58 Best Robert Kiyosaki Quotes to Inspire Financial Freedom & Success

Stop blaming me, thinking I’m the problem. If you think I’m the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else.”
Robert Kiyosaki

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

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 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.

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! — 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!

If you’ve failed, that means you’re doing something. If you’re doing something, you have a chance.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
Robert Kiyosaki

The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They’re always learning. They’re always growing. They’re always pushing. — The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They’re always **learning**. They’re always growing. They’re always pushing.

You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.

Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man’s attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

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.

If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old person.”
Robert Kiyosaki

Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. don’t work for money. Work for knowledge. — Don’t be addicted to money. Work to **learn**. don’t work for money. Work for **knowledge**.

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. — 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.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on. — Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the **fortitude** to continue on.

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

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. — 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.

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.”
Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else. — Most people want everyone else in the world to **change** themselves. Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work.

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems. — The **fear** of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.”
Robert Kiyosaki

Excuses cost a dime and that’s why the poor could afford a lot of it.

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead. — **Complaining** about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit. — Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won’t quit.

The moment you make passive income and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh. — The moment you make **passive income** and portfolio income a part of your life, your life will change. Those words will become flesh.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard, but they might succeed more than they ever dreamed too. — Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard, but they might succeed more than they ever **dreamed** too.

We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.”
Robert Kiyosaki

Your mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely. — Your **mentors** in life are important, so choose them wisely.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future. — If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the **future**.

Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. — When times are bad is when the real **entrepreneurs** emerge.

Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful. — **FOCUS** – Follow One Course Until Successful.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.”
Robert Kiyosaki

Every time you think you can’t do something, someone else thinks they can.

In today’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

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. — 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.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy. — You will make some mistakes but, if you **learn** from those mistakes, those mistakes will become **wisdom** and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

If you want to be rich, think big, think differently.

Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.

Change your focus from making money, to serving more people. Serving more people makes the money come in.

Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.

It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.”
Robert Kiyosaki

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. — 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.

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained to recognize opportunities right in front of them.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

If you’re still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you’re losing.

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.”
Robert Kiyosaki

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

If you want to be financially free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

34 Motivational Robert Kiyosaki Quotes to Empower You

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.”
Robert Kiyosaki

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions. — **Learn** to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.

The thing I always say to people is this: If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear. — The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle **fear**.

The most life destroying word of all is the word tomorrow.

The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out. — Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of **learning** something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom. — You will never know **true freedom** until you achieve **financial freedom**.

Hoping drains your energy. Action creates energy. — Hoping drains your energy. **Action** creates energy.

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.

The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver, you become rich.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard. — As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t hard either. But without a strong reason or **purpose**, anything in life is hard.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.

When you create wealth, it’s your responsibility to return it to society. — When you create wealth, it’s your **responsibility** to return it to society.

Don’t let the fear of losing, be greater than the excitement of winning. — Don’t let the fear of losing, be greater than the **excitement** of winning.

Watch what the idiots are doing, and do the opposite.

The most successful people are mavericks who aren’t afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it’s obvious.

Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says. — Talk is cheap. **Learn** to listen with your eyes. **Actions** do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure. — Success is a poor teacher. We **learn** the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

Don’t waste a good mistake, learn from it. — Don’t waste a good mistake, **learn** from it.

Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that’s fine; learn from it & don’t make it again. — Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that’s fine; **learn** from it & don’t make it again.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. — Your **future** is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn’t know before. — A mistake is a signal that it is time to **learn** something new, something you didn’t know before.

Find out where you are at, where you are going and build a plan to get there.

You’ll often find that it’s not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that’s stopping you. It’s you. Get out of your own way.

Money only magnifies who you really are.

People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people. — People who **dream** small dreams continue to live as small people.

Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for cowards and those too full of fear to take action. — Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for cowards and those too full of fear to take **action**.

Robert Kiyosaki Short Biography

Born on 8 April 1947 in Hawaii, U.S., Robert Toru Kiyosaki is a Japanese-American bestselling author, motivational speaker, investor, and entrepreneur.

Best known for writing the no.1 bestselling personal finance book of all time, Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997), Robert Kiyosaki is the founder of Rich Global LLC (Bankrupt – 2012) and the Rich Dad Company which provides financial education through books, videos, and games.

Kiyosaki believes that the world needs more problem solvers and entrepreneurs to create more jobs.

He never was a fan of the highly-inflatable US dollar after Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard back in 1971. In recent years, Robert Kiyosaki believes that Bitcoin is the future and advice his followers to invest in it along with other commodities such as Gold and Silver.

Further reading:

Robert Kiyosaki: Dollar Is Dying, Buy Bitcoin – Bitcoin News
Robert Kiyosaki Net Worth – Celebrity Net Worth
Rich Dad Poor Dad Summary: The 9 Best Lessons I Learned From Robert Kiyosaki – Growth.me
‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ author Robert Kiyosaki reveals how to secure your financial future after COVID-19 – 7 News

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