Robert Kiyosaki Money Quotations

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.

It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

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.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have - by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

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.

Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

I'm a cash flow guy. If it doesn't make me money today, forget about it.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

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.

A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

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.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.

The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

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.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

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.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund.

I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

The love of money is the root of all evil." The lack of money is the root of all evil.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.