Robert Kiyosaki

“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”

“When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.”

“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”

“So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.”

“Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.”

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

“Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.”

“When people are lame, they love to blame.”

“We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.”

“I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.”

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

“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.”

“If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.”