Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.

It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.

Good debt is a powerful tool, but bad debt can kill you.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

Credit is an 'I love debt' score.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

Anything that gets people to think harder about their financial security and take some responsibility is a good thing.

Leverage is great when it works, and when it doesn't work, it creates a lot of issues. So I think if you limit the amount of leverage that people can borrow, or that banks can borrow, I think you'll find that you'll have a lot less issues going forward.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

... maybe we can all agree on one lesson from the Greek crisis, namely that, to maintain a friendship, you should lend only as much money as you are ready to give away anyway.

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.