Wealth & Money Quote by Robert Kiyosaki

Kiyosaki’s line is a tidy piece of culture-war copy dressed up as personal finance advice: school trains you to be an employee; he trains you to be an owner. The intent is recruitment as much as illumination. He’s not only selling a philosophy of wealth, he’s positioning himself as the counter-institution to the institution, the guy who teaches what “they” won’t. That “we” is crucial: it turns individual anxiety into a shared grievance, then offers a purchasable escape hatch.

The subtext leans on a familiar American suspicion that formal education is a rigged game designed to mint obedient workers. In Kiyosaki’s framing, labor is a trap and the real prize is leverage: assets, systems, passive income, the fantasy of earning without being pinned to a schedule. “Money work hard for them” is a rhetorical magic trick, shifting agency from the person to the capital. It implies discipline and strategy while flattering the audience with a sense they’re one mindset shift away from the investor class.

Context matters: this is late-20th-century self-help capitalism, arriving as job security thins, wages stagnate, and entrepreneurship gets mythologized as moral superiority. The line works because it taps a genuine frustration - schooling often does prepare people for employment more than ownership - and then collapses a complex reality into a binary: worker versus wealth-builder. It’s motivating, meme-able, and aspirational, but it also blurs the messy parts: risk, privilege, access to capital, and the fact that “money working” usually means other people working somewhere in the chain.