Explore Quotes by Dave Ramsey

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.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

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

If you aren’t _x000D_ really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

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

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

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.

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

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.

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.

Too many people try to do the new job, new spouse, new house, new car thing in 18 months. That's a good way to end up broke. We've got to resist the temptation to catch up with our parents in 18 months. Slow down. You have the rest of your life to play catch up. After all, it's just stuff.

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

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.

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.