Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

As I said, getting out of the rat race is technically easy. It doesn’t take much education, but those doubts are cripplers for most people.

If you look at anyone successful, at the start they were not balanced. Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress, you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking. Thomas Edison was not balanced. He was focused. Bill Gates was not balanced. He was focused. Donald Trump is focused. George Soros is focused. George Patton did not take his tanks wide. He focused them and blew through the weak spots in the German line. The French went wide with the Maginot Line, and you know what happened to them. If you have any desire of being rich, you must focus.

If you have little money and you want to be rich, you must first be “focused,” not “balanced.”

There is a big difference between hating losing and being afraid to lose.

The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning.

Failure inspires winners.

Texans don’t bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is the formula for all winners.

[...]take a loss and make it a win.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

“It’s a Texan’s attitude toward risk, reward and failure I’m talking about. It’s how they handle life. They live it big.

The fear of losing money is real. Everyone has it. Even the rich. But it’s not fear that is the problem. It’s how you handle fear. It’s how you handle losing. It’s how you handle failure that makes the difference in one’s life. That goes for anything in life, not just money. The primary difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they handle that fear.

And in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost money. But I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime…investing, that is.

All too often, they’re poor or struggle financially or earn less than they are capable of, not because of what they know but because of what they do not know.

The world is filled with talented poor people.

When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald’s?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald’s makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald’s is excellent at business systems. The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on building a better hamburger and know little to nothing about business systems.