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Rich Dad Poor Dad
by: Robert T. Kiyosaki
"Learning how to have money work for you is a lifetime study. Most people go to college for years, and their education ends. I already know that my study of money will continue over my lifetime, simply because the more I find out, the more I find out I need to know. Most people never study the subject. They go to work, get their paycheck, balance their cheeckbooks, and that's it. They wonder why they have money problems. They think that more money will solve the problem and don't realize that it's their lack of financial education that is the problem". (RDPD, p.25)
"Prices go up because of greed and fear caused by ignorance. If schools taught about money, there would be more money and lower prices. But schools focus only on teaching people to work for money... (RDPD, p.36)
"..once a person stop searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in".
"..to spend your life living in fear, never exploring your dreams is cruel. To work hard for money, thinking that it will buy you things that will make you happy is also cruel. To wake up in the middle of the night terrified about paying is horrible way to live. To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really living a life. Thinking that job makes you secure is lying to yourself. That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you to avoid. Don't let money run your life." (Rich Dad Poor Dad)
"The pattern to get up, go to work, pay bills; get up, go to work, pay bills. People's lives are forever controlled by two emotion: fear and greed. Offer them more money and they continue the cycle by increasing their spending. This is what I call the Rat Race."
"Instead of admitting the truth about how they feel, they react to their feelings and fail to think. They feel the fear so they go to work, hoping that money will soothe the fear, hoping again that money will calm their fears, and again it doesn't. Fear keeps them in this trap of working, earning money, working, earning money, hoping the fear will go away But every day they get up, and that old fear wakes up with them. For millions of people that old fear keeps them awake all night, causing a night of turmoil and worry. So they get up and go to work, hoping that a paycheck will kill that fear gnawing at their soul. Money is running their lives, and they refuse to tell the truth about that. Money is control of their emotions and their souls. (Rich Dad Poor Dad, p.30)
"In fact the reason many rich people are rich isn't because of desire, but because of fear. They believe that money can eliminate the fear of being poor, so they amass tons of it, only to find the fears gets worse. Now they fear losing the money. I have friends who keep working even though they have plenty. I know people who have millions who are more afraid ow than when they were poor. They're terrified of losing it all. The fears that drove them to get rich got worse. That weak and needy part of their soul is actually screaming louder. They don't want to lose the big houses, the cars and the high life money has bought them. They worry about what their friends would say if they lose all their money. May are emotionally desperate and neurotic, although they look rich and have more money." (Rich Dad Poor Dad, p.31)
"...choosing what we think rather than reacting to our emotions. Instead of just getting up and going to work because not having the money to pay your bills is scaring you, ask yourself, 'Is working harder at this the best solution to this problem?' Most people are too afraid to rationally think things through and instead run out the door to a job they hate." (RDPD, p.37)
