Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

One of my key issues is economic empowerment.

When I started my own business, I funded it as a naked model. I still think that the sex industry can, for some men and women, be a powerful tool for improving their financial prospects.

Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

I make money, money doesn't make me.

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

When it comes to money, I can earn it.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work, that's why there are two types of people today. Those who build their own dreams and those who build someone else dreams.

I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them - especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business.

Let's say financially. Financially, I personally believe that you should have enough to do the assignment that you feel is part of your life. And whatever that is to do, you're going to need.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.