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41 Dave Ramsey Quotes On Money

Dave Ramsey is an evangelical Christian and personal finance advisor who hosts ”The Dave Ramsey Show.” He uses biblically-based principles to teach his listeners how to improve their financial conditions.

Here Is A List Of 41 Dave Ramsey Quotes:

#1 ”Money will not make you happy. Money will make you more of what you already are.”

#2 ”Don’t take money advice from broke people.”

#3 ”If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting.”

#4 ”Money is finite. There is not an infinite supply. That’s something a lot of people have trouble remembering these days.”

#5 ”I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.”

#6 ”The Bible does NOT say, ’Money is the root of all evil.’ It says, ’The LOVE of money is…’ We are called to manage money for God, not worship it.”

#7 ”Someone who never has fun with money misses the point. Someone who never invests money will never have any.”

#8 ”Teach your kids how to work and handle money or they will be 30 years old and living in your basement.”

#9 ”Over the long term you get what you deserve, and none of us like it when what we deserve is pain.”

#10 ”If you are a Christian like me, it is your spiritual duty to possess riches so that you can do with the things that bring glory to God.”

#11 ”You can’t teach your children to work unless you do.”

#12 ”Measure your wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.”

#13 ”One of my pastors says that living right is not complicated; it may be difficult, but it is not complicated.”

#14 ”Savings without a mission is garbage. Your money needs to work for you, not lie around you.”

#15 ”A budget is people telling their money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

#16 ”If you’re married, agree on the budget with your spouse. This one sentence requires a stand-alone book to describe how.”

#17 ”I learned early on that work creates discipline, and when you have discipline in your life, you are a healthier person.”

#18 ”Anyone can change their life. Focused Intensity on a certain area moves the needle.”

#19 ”Goals convert vision into energy. When you layout exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake.”

#20 ”You will either manage money or the lack of it will always manage you.”

#21 ”If you have a temper, wealth will make you a raging lunatic. If you are a giver, wealth will make you a philanthropist.”

#22 ”People will not buy from you if they don’t trust you, your product, and your company.”

#23 ”I do recommend that most people sell the car with the most debt on it.”

#24 ”Money problems are never the problem. They’re always the symptom of something else that’s going on.”

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#25 ”Business is not hard. Love people and treat others as you would want to be treated…..over time, prosperity will follow.”

#26 ”It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.”

#27 ”There’s a high correlation between couples that win financially and couples who handle their money together.”

#28 ”When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.”

#29 ”You CAN make progress with your money. You just need a plan.”

#30 ”A permanent change in your view of debt is your only chance.”

#31 ”If you are trying to get momentum in marketing, business, marriage, your physical condition, or your parenting, take your best focused intensity over time and multiply it by God for unstoppable momentum.”

#32 ”15% of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85% was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.”

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#33 ”Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans cannot even envision a car without a payment, a house without a mortgage, a student without a loan, and credit without a card.”

#34 ”Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge.”

#35 ”79 percent of millionaires inherited $0.”

#36 ”The fastest way to become wealthy is to gain control of your largest wealth-building tool, your income.”

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

#38 ”Winning with money (and in life) is a marathon, not a sprint. Consistent incremental progress causes the win. You can’t microwave success.”

#39 ”We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”

#40 ”Lack of emotional maturity will make you broke.”

#41 ”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.”

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