Dave Ramsey Quotes

If you want something you’ve never had, you’ll have to do something you’ve never done.

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

I’m not against people having new cars. I’m against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we’ll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.”

This is not a game, … Debt has become a part of who we are. It’s become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: ‘I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.’ And, well, that’s an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, ‘Hey, let’s be grownups here. Let’s be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.’”

Consumers got to wake up and just say no.

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

You can’t work three hours a week and make $100,000. Get rich quick doesn’t work. Crock pot mentality always defeats microwave mentality!

Work – get paid; don’t work – don’t get paid. Everybody is on commission, … Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don’t work, don’t get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you’re 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you’re 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.”

I’m not talking about Hitler’s boot camp for kids or something. But they do need to learn to work, … Graduate from high school with something more than the ability to open a bag of Doritos and play Nintendo. That’s a bad plan. Work creates money. I meet 54-year-olds that haven’t got that one down.”

Too much drama-like a bunch of 13-year-old girls running the planet!

You wanna blow money? Put it in a ‘blow’ category in your budget. But at least admit it on paper!

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, ‘I’m just passing through.’

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

Not until the pain of the same is greater than the pain of change will you embrace change.

For a period of time, you can win financially and later buy whatever you want.

The average millionaire can’t tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

Let some one else take the butt kicking on devaluation.

You will be back here supplementing that appropriation again, again and again,”