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
If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.
I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.
Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.
The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.
The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.
In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.
The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money...but never learn to have money work for them.
If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.