Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

I went to college, got a job. Not a good job or anything but I was fully set to be an office employee for my life.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

I won't give up my day job of design.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.