Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Broke is temporary, poor is eternal.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I'm not poor, but I'm not rich, either.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

I don't understand how poor people think.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

I come from a poor family.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.