Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosakiis an American businessman, investor, self-help author, educator, motivational speaker, financial literacy activist, financial commentator, and radio personality. Kiyosaki is the founder of the Rich Dad Company, a private financial education company that provides personal financial and business education to people through books, videos, games, seminars, blogs, coaching, and workshops. He is also the creator of the Cashflow board and software games to educate adults and children business and financial concepts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 April 1947
CityHilo, HI
CountryUnited States of America
It's tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.
Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.
A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.
Prophets of doom have always taken risks in terms of ridicule and humiliation. If you stand on a street corner holding up a sign that reads 'The End Is Near,' passersby will laugh and heckle. People will say you're like Chicken Little, running around telling people the sky is falling.
The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.
When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.
When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.
I just don't like mutual funds. I think they're a rip-off.
Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.
Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.
It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise.