Dave Ramsey Quotes about Money

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

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

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.

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

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.

I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.

Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

Debt has become a part of who we are.