Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

Power goes to two poles: to those who've got money and those who've got people.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

I think what the American people are saying is enough is enough. This country, this great country, belongs to all of us. It cannot continue to be controlled by a handful of billionaires who apparently want it all.

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.

The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama, not Bernie Sanders, no one person has the influence by himself or herself to take on this enormous array of power unless millions of people begin to work together to demand changes.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

The people who exercise the power are not always the same people over whom it is exercised.

Give the votes to people who have no property and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

The exclusive owners of property ever have been, ever will, and perhaps ever ought to be the virtual rulers of mankind

Them’s that got the gold makes the rules.

It is necessary today to have money, much money, to enjoy the right to speak ... Silence to the poor!

We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

… a dunderhead who has no more brains than a post, and who is as vicious as he is foolish, should command a great many wise and good men, simply because he happens to have a big pile of gold coins.

It is no accident that in America today the gap between the very rich and everyone else is wider than at any time since the Gilded Age. Now, as then, the titans are seeking an even greater political voice to match their economic power. Now, as then, the inevitable danger is that they will confuse their own self-interest with the common good.

Of the 1 Percent. By the 1 Percent. For the 1 Percent.

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches

Where enough money calls the tune, the general public will not be heard.

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.

The rich are hijacking American democracy.

Money is the power of the impotent.