Quotes by Dave Ramsey

About Dave Ramsey:

David L. "Dave" Ramsey III is an American financial author, radio host, television personality, and motivational speaker. His show and writings strongly focus on encouraging people to get out of debt.
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The problem with your company is not the economy, it is not the lack of opportunity, it is not your team. The problem is you. That is the bad news. The good news is, if you're the problem, you're also the solution. You're the one person you can chang...

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The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.// Strange as it may seem, when you wo...

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Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

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My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work,...

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We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

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Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

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I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

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People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.

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We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

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While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

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I've got a young man who works for me who says you don't need to discover your dreams - you need to recover them.

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This is a great time for the 'guerilla marketer.' The days when you used to have to buy expensive TV time and a yellow page ad to get started are gone.

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In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

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The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

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I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

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You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

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Credit is an 'I love debt' score.

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My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.

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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

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I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people ski...

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Author Bio

  • NameDave Ramsey
  • DescriptionAmerican financial advisor
  • BornSeptember 3, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionRadio Host