Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Never argue with a profit.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.

I feel like investing in really solid stuff that I can control.

Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

Margin is a customer concept.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.

I don't care about revenues.

I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.