Dave Ramsey Quotes

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

Almost nobody gets rich or erudite overnight.

Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen.

Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

I want to get rich and die old.

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

I can't help from making money, that is all.