A short YouTube interview clip (recorded Aug 15, 2025) in which Hannah Hammond asks Robert Kiyosaki about his toughest battle in achieving financial freedom. Kiyosaki criticizes formal schooling as teaching compliance and punishing mistakes, emphasizes practicing entrepreneurial skills (particularly selling), and frames market downturns (and dollar weakness) as opportunities to get rich using assets like gold and real estate.
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From your perspective, what has been the toughest battle that you fought on the journey of achieving financial freedom?
You want to be rich and happy? Don't go to school because schools teach you things to be not successful. And the biggest one is they punish you for making mistakes. And most school teachers are poor because they're afraid of making mistakes. We have to get free of our indoctrination into servitude and slave. Go to school, get a job, work hard, don't make mistakes, Save money. Savers or losers? Because the price of gold's going up, it doesn't mean gold's going up, means the dollar's coming down. Real estate is going up because the dollar's coming down. And they don't tell you that in school. And so when markets crash is when I get rich. So my whole practice since I was a kid, practicing making money out of nothing. And the reason so many people are afraid of quitting their jobs, becoming free is they don't have the skills. The number one skill of an entrepreneur is can you sell? When you can do that, money flows in. It's skills that make you rich, not money.