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
When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.
Work to learn. Don't work for money.
You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.
Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.
A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.
I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.
When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.
In 'Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education' and 'Why A Students Work for C Students,' I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.
During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.
The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.