Robert Kiyosaki Says When Walmart Has A Sale, Poor People Buy Everything. When The Market Crashes, They Sell. The Rich Do The Opposite

“Rich Dad, Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki has once again stirred up conversation with his frank take on why rich and poor people approach money so differently.

“When Walmart has a SALE poor people rush in and buy, buy, buy,” Kiyosaki wrote in a recent post on X. “Yet when the Financial Asset Market has a sale…a.k.a.…..CRASH… the poor sell and run….while the rich rush in….and buy, buy, buy.”

Kiyosaki said he sees the current dip in gold, silver and Bitcoin as an opportunity, not a disaster. “The gold, silver, and Bitcoin market just crashed,” he said, “and I am waiting….with cash in hand….to begin to buying more.”

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He believes most people get it backwards: they spend aggressively when consumer goods are marked down, but panic when financial markets drop. In his view, market downturns are when real wealth-building opportunities open up.

This isn’t the first time he’s framed financial knowledge around what he calls the “laws of money.” In a post from last year, he pointed to Gresham’s law, saying, “When bad money enters a system…good money goes into hiding” as a reason he doesn’t save in U.S. dollars. “Savers are losers,” he repeated, saying that poor people are saving the wrong kind of money.

He also cited Metcalfe’s law, which suggests value comes from networks. That’s why he supports assets like Bitcoin and companies like FedEx (NYSE:FDX) or McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), which he sees as scalable and built on strong networks. “Mom Pop burgers is not. That’s why they’re poor,” he wrote. “Most cryptos are not,” he added. “That’s why I save gold, silver, and acquire Bitcoin. They obey the laws.”

Kiyosaki also said he avoids assets that violate these principles. “I do not save US dollars because the US dollar violates Gresham’s law,” he wrote. “I do not invest in shit coins without networks, because they violate [Metcalfe’s law].”

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For Kiyosaki, long-term success comes from thinking differently about value, networks, and money. And in volatile moments like now, when gold, silver, and crypto prices have taken a hit, he views it as a time to double down, not retreat.

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Kiyosaki closed his recent post with a direct challenge: “What are you going to do?”

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