Robert Kiyosaki
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Biography
Robert Toru Kiyosaki is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and author, known for the Rich Dad Poor Dad series of personal finance books. He founded the Rich Dad Company, which provides personal finance and business education through books and videos, and Rich Global LLC, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012.
"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."
"I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken."
"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."
"If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win."
"If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there."
"When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge."
"When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure."
"Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them."
"So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes."
"Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing."
"You have to be smart. The easy days are over."
"Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam."
"When people are lame, they love to blame."
"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them."
"I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer."
"Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing."
"A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone."
"We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them."
"If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there."
"The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'"
"It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds."
"Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it."
"Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means."
"Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job."
"Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold."