Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

When you get inflation, you get massive distortions of the economy.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.

Inflation is everywhere and anywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation.

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

The currency of any country, whether it be coin or bank-notes, cannot be increased beyond the mercantile wants of that country, without producing a depreciation in the parts which compose the currency.

Under the guise of fighting inflation, COLA actually creates it.

Nothing so weakens governments as persistent inflation.

The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.