Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."

"I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken."

"If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?"

"If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win."

"If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there."

"If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best."

"Israel will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof."

"Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges."

"Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?"

"My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete."

"Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad."

"Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive."

"Success is not a stop sign."

"The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate."

"The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work."

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."

"The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'"

"Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections."

"Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means."

"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."