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Robert T Kiyosaki ( Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad )

A job is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem. ( Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes)

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Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.

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An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket.

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an asset in something

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

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As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

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Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot.

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Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.

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Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word ’emotion’ stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself. The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

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Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

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Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

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Financial struggle is often directly the result of people working all their lives for someone else.

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Financially, with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future: to be rich, poor, or middle class.

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FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Successful.

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For winners, losing inspires them. For losers, losing defeats them.

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Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts. ( Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes)

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Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

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Guilt is worse than greed, for guilt robs the body of its soul.

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Having no money should not be an excuse to not learn.

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High emotions tend to lower financial intelligence

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I can’t afford it’ shut down your brain. it didn’t have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. a helplessness that leads to despondency and often depression

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I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

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I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

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If  you want to learn about money, teach it to someone else.

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If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed.

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If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer despite tough changes.

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If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the right thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before you’ll start your trip.

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If you have read this far, arrogance is not one of your problems. Arrogant people rarely read or listen to experts. Why should they? They are the center of the universe.

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If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems.

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If you work for money, you give the power to you employer. If money works for you, you keep the power and control it.

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If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man. ( Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes)

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If your financial intelligence is low, money will run all over you. It will be smarter than you. If money is smarter than you, you will work for it all your life.

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In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

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In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes.

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Invest first in education. In reality, the only real asset you have is your mind, the most powerful tool we have dominion over.

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It is this Robin Hood fantasy, or taking from the rich to give to the poor, that has caused the most pain for the poor and the middle class.

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Knowledge is power. And with money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiply. Without that knowledge, the world pushes you around.

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Land was wealth 300 years ago. So the person who owned the land owned the wealth. Today, it is information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

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Leadership is what you need to learn next.

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Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.

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Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it’s easy.

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Listening is more important than talking. If that were not true, God would not have given us two ears and only one mouth. Too many people think with their mouth instead of listening in order to absorb new ideas and possibilities. 

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Many people use arrogance to hide their own ignorance.

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Maybe McDonald’s does not make the best hamburger, but they are the best at selling and delivering a basic average burger.

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Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. ( Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes)

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Money is only an idea. If you want more money, simply change your thinking.

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Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around.

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Most people fail to realize that in life, it’s not how much money you make, it’s how much money you keep.

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Most people never see the trap they are in.

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Often in the real world, it’s not the smart who get ahead, but the bold.

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One dad recommended, ‘Study hard so you can find a good company to work for’. The other recommended, ‘Study hard so you can find a good company to buy’.

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our culture has educated us into believing that the love of money is the root of all evil.

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People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back.

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People who avoid failure also avoid success.

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People who lack internal fortitude often become victims of those who have self-discipline.

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Proper physical exercise increases your chances for health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth.

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Remember, the easy road often becomes hard, and the hard road often becomes easy.

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Rich dad explained to me that the hardest part of running a company is managing people.

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Rich people acquire assets. The poor and the middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

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Rich people are often creative and take calculated risks. People who take the longest are people who are not familiar with numbers and often do not understand the power of investing.

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Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

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So if you want to be rich and maintain your wealth, it’s important to be financially literate, in words as well as numbers.

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Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

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Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they’re more afraid of losing.

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Taxes punish those who produce and reward those who don’t produce.

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that is not how life teaches you, and I would say that life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, ‘Wake up. There’s something I want you to learn. ( Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes)

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The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person’s ability to convert earned income into passive and/or portfolio income.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

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The primary difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they manage fear.

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The real skill is to manage and reward the people who are smarter than you in some technical area. That is why companies have a board of directors.

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The rich know that savings are only used to create more money, not to pay bills.

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The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth seemingly instantaneously. An untrained mind can also create extreme poverty that can crush a family for generations.

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The skills of selling and marketing are difficult for most people, primarily due to their fear of rejection. The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

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The three most important management skills necessary to start your own business are management of ​Cash flow. ​People.​ Personal time.

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There are five main reasons why financially literate people may still not develop abundant asset columns that could produce a large cash flow. The five reasons are: 1.​ Fear 2.​ Cynicism 3. ​Laziness 4.​ Bad habits 5.​ Arrogance.

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There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal.

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There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoiding it

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They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, ‘Is there another way?

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They spend their lives minding someone else’s business and making that person rich.

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To be the master of money, you need to be smarter than it. Then money will do as it is told. It will obey you. Instead of being a slave to it, you will be the master of it. That is financial intelligence.

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To be truly rich, we need to be able to give as well as to receive.

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To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really living a life. Thinking that a job makes you secure is lying to yourself. That’s cruel, and that’s the trap I want you to avoid.

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Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth

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Unfortunately, for many people school is the end, not the beginning.

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We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence. ( Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes)

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We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson.

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101 Best and Powerful Rich Dad Poor Dad Quotes

We’re all heroes at something, and cowards at something else.

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wealth measures how much money your money is making and, therefore, your financial survivability.

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When I want a bigger house, I first buy assets that will generate the cash flow to pay for the house.

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When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself by finding an expert in the field or a book on the subject.

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When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself.

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When you need advice, make sure you choose your advisor wisely.

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Whenever I feel that people aren’t smiling at me, I simply begin smiling and saying hello. Like magic, the next thing I know I’m surrounded by smiling people. It is true that your world is only a mirror of you.

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Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.

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Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

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Workers work hard enough to not be red, and owners pay just enough so that workers won’t quit.

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You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich, this is all you need to know. It is rule number one. It is the only rule.

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You will see things that other people never see. Most people never see these opportunities because they’re looking for money and security.

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You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.

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You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something. Keep going. Don’t quit.

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