Rich Dad, Poor Dad Quotes

Physical exercise improves health, mental exercise improves wealth, laziness destroys both.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



The only way to get out of the 'rat race' is to prove your proficiency at both accounting and investing, arguably two of the most difficult subjects to master.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



The rich with corporations:

- Earn money

- Spend money

- Pay taxes

People who work for corporations:

- Earn money

- Pay taxes

- Spend money

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



Most people are poor because when it comes to investing, the world is filled with Chicken Littles running around yelling, ‘The sky is falling. The sky is falling.’

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



The only way to get out of the "Rat Race" is to prove your proficiency at both accounting and investing, arguably two of the most difficult subjects to master.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



Many of today's youth have credit cards before they leave high school, yet they have never had a course in money or how to invest it, let alone understand how compound interest works on credit cards.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



The poor and middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



Remember the Golden Rule. He who has the gold makes the rules.


Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad



The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Donald Trump Quotes

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.


Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.


The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.

What percentage of the people in the room could be entrepreneurs? In the society, I’d probably say 1 or 2 %.


You have to think anyway, so why not think big?


I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.




The point is that you can't be too greedy.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.


When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.


Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.


A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.




All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.


It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.


Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.


Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.



With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.


I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.


One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.


I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.


Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.




Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.


I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.




In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term.


Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.


As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.




Everything in life is luck.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.


Everything in life is luck.


Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.




I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.


If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Warren Buffett Quotes

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
Warren Buffett

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
Warren Buffett

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
Warren Buffett

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Warren Buffett

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.
Warren Buffett

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
Warren Buffett

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism-some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
Warren Buffett

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics (bearing in mind that there are really only three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't).
Warren Buffett

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett

We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’
Warren Buffett

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett


I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett

The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.
Warren Buffett

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett

Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".
Warren Buffett

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett

For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn’t work is when you start doing things that you don't understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
Warren Buffett

Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
Warren Buffett

Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.
Warren Buffett



Despite three years of falling prices, which have significantly improved the attractiveness of common stocks, we still find very few that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.
Warren Buffett

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

Essential Reading for Great Investors: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition