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All Quotes by author - Robert Kiyosaki

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

" A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones. "

" A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself. "

" All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception. "

" 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. "

" Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power. "

" An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. "

" An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt. "

" Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest. "

" As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market. "

" As a precious metal, silver is also money. "

" As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich. "

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

" A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash. "

" As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved. "

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

" As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar. "

" At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt. "

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

" At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0. "

" Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans. "

" Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate. "

" By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card. "

" Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold. "

" Confidence comes from discipline and training. "

" Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction. "

" Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation. "

" Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age. "

" During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain. "

" Education is what you learn after you leave school. "

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