Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks.

It's fine to seek professional help, but I urge everyone - no matter how big their portfolio - to truly understand every suggestion they're given before acting.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

I don't give investment advice.

You must make some decisions Wall Street dislikes.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on behalf of my parents.

I have good people around me who guide me, tell me where I should put my money.

I did not write any of the letters that were ever published as investment commentary.

Most financial questions don't have one right answer - just an answer that's right for you.

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

I'm the TV girl.

We absolutely take no decisions based on the share price, not for LVMH.

I started trading stocks, options and futures while I was at UCLA, using my earnings from working summers at the old IBM plant on Cottle Road. I never lost interest in how companies work. It's fundamental to who I am.

I'd like to see great textbooks, great opportunities for kids to really understand stock market investing, because at the end of the day, they are going to be all they have in terms of creating a life for themselves, a retirement account, and things like that.