The network marketing industry offers many unique benefits to those who want more out of life.
I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.
If you fail, learn, and move on, you're growing.
Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.
Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.
I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.
Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.
I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.
If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business.
I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.
You need to have the courage to fail.
Business and investing are team sports.
Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.
Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.
Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.
If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.
The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.
Think of something new you’ve actually learned in the past week; if you can’t think of anything, get comfortable where you’re at because you’re not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.
Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.
Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.
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.
Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.
