Dave Ramsey Quotes - Page 2

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

When getting help with money, whether it is insurance, real estate or investments you should always look for a person with the heart of a teacher, not the heart of a salesman.

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

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

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

A big part of being strong financially is that you know where you are weak and take action to make sure you don't fall prey to the weakness. And we ALL are weak

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

Wealth comes from hard work but not because of hard work. Wealth comes because of God. Everything is His.

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.

Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.

If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today.

If the US Government was a family—they would be making $58,000 a year, spending $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

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 skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.

I'm a Christian. Years ago, I went broke, so I decided to run every part of my life according to the Bible. It sounds hokey, but it works. You run your marriage that way, and it works. It will work with business, too, and finances. Treat people like you want to be treated.