Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

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Robert Kiyosaki

Profession : Author

Birth : April 8, 1947

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

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French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.

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All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

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The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

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It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

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

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You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

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Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

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When people are lame, they love to blame.

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Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

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Education is what you learn after you leave school.

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The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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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.

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An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

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If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

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I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

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I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

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I explain the law of compensation like this: 'Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

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I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.

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Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

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