Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.

Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

You're only the boss if you put up your own money.

I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.

I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.

If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.