Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.

I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.

My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.

The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.

Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.

I'm incredibly passionate about business, about small businesses, and about kids being given the right skills so they are successful.