Dave Ramsey Quotes - Page 5

Fear is the enemy of hope.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work!

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!

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

At the end of the day we are not selling, we are serving.

Your greatest asset is your paycheck. Disability insurance protects you and your family if you are unable to work by providing income which will help pay your bills and take care of your family. It's just as important as life insurance.

Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

We started in our living room on a card table in our living room, and we have a multi-million dollar company and we know it can be done without borrowing a dime. It takes a while to get it started and to turn the wheel over, but the next time it's easier and the next few hundred times, it's easier than that. Have a budget where you reinvest a percentage of every dollar you earn to grow it.

When we're dealing with money in relationships, when we're dealing with money in our personal lives, when we're dealing with money in our families, the flow of money in a family represents the value system under which that family operates.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

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.

If you help enough people, you don't have to worry about money.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

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.'

Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins. Real EntreLeaders care deeply, and that is basically what passion is. Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply.