Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
Robert KiyosakiRead
More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.
Interpretation
Understanding your motivations for achieving financial freedom is more important than the methods used to achieve it.
In this quote, Robert Kiyosaki emphasizes that the motivation behind seeking financial freedom—your personal reasons and goals—holds greater importance than the specific strategies or methods you employ to achieve it. Knowing your 'why' provides direction and inspiration, giving purpose to the pursuit of wealth and financial independence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving personal goals.
Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.
If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.
If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.
I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.
For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now.
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