Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

I didn't buy Bentleys. I didn't live large. I invested in me. I invested in a lot of other people.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

… these riches, that are derived from this art of wealth-getting, are truly unlimited; for just as the art of medicine is without limit in respect to health, and each of the arts is without limit in respect of its end...

In 'Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education' and 'Why A Students Work for C Students,' I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.

Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don't have to work anymore. I tell people I don't have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can't go broke if you turn a profit.

Money doesn't make me - I make the money.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

I'm making my money make money.

Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

Do not go out first thing after signing a contract and buy assets that are huge compared to the contract signed. Just because you have money for the first time doesn't mean you have to spend it before you know all the ramifications of buying the assets.

It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

If you want to retire young and retire rich, it is very important that your money be like a bird dog, going out every day and bringing home more and more assets.

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

You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’