Robert T. Kiyosaki
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
What a dump.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You complete me.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Seize the day.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Ability is sexless.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
As if !
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Follow the money.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Act or accept.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Where there is love there is life.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Would you like to play a game ?
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Live life with passion.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.