November 6, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"We think you ought to get about 10 to 12 times your income in Term Life Insurance [when others depend on your income]." Dave Ramsey

September 22, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Don't just put $300 in a checking account and expect a 14 year old to be instantly sophisticated with their budgeting skills, they don't have a clue! You gotta walk with them." Dave Ramsey

August 4, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"When you are a little kid you learn to trade stuff and you're trading money for school supplies; when you use your credit card or even a debit card, what the little child sees is that you got your card out, swiped it, and put it back. There was no trade, you didn't trade your marbles. You got to keep all your stuff and you got stuff, so there's the lack of value transaction visually there." Dave Ramsey

July 25, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You have a reading of the will while you're alive and you tell everyone what is going on." Dave Ramsey

June 10, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"All dads know that an eagle who doesn't leave the nest is eventually known as a turkey." Dave Ramsey

June 10, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"What father doesn't want to teach their kids how to handle money? All fathers that want the kids to not end up living in their basement when they're 30." Dave Ramsey

June 5, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Parents are stupid too; when you let an 18 year old make a decision to go $200,000 in debt to attend a certain school to get a PhD in German Polka History, which has no marketable skills in the marketplace, as a parent you've failed by allowing them to make that decision by themselves." Dave Ramsey

May 27, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"If you don't teach your kids how to handle money, they will live in your basement!" Dave Ramsey

April 15, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"We got 27% of people in the 20's still living in their parent's basement; it's an epidemic and the wussification of America." Dave Ramsey

April 15, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"One of the most satisfying thing on the planet for a man, young or old, is to leave the cave, kill something and drag it home." Dave Ramsey

April 15, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I love you too much to participate in you ruining your life and you not working is ruining your life." Dave Ramsey

April 8, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You do get dignity when you pay your own bills." Dave Ramsey

April 8, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"When you got a 28 year old still living in your basement, emergencies aside, their emotional growth is stunted, so they're growing up later, emotionally speaking." Dave Ramsey

April 8, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"An Eagle that doesn't leave the nest is eventually a turkey." Dave Ramsey

January 2, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I've been real clear with my kids that certain behaviors are required for you to participate in the family wealth; if you're not gonna engage in reasonable values and behaviors, you're not gonna participate in the family wealth. It's that simple." Dave Ramsey

December 9, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"The best way to be a successful adult is to be a giver...we all want to be around generous people not hateful, snarling, self-centered [individuals]." Dave Ramsey

December 9, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"If I give a kid money walking through the parking lot of the church and I give them $5 to put in the offering plate while they're in children's church, they don't experience the thrill of giving, because they are not a giver but a courier, they carried my $5 and put it in the plate. If instead the kid has cleaned up their room and fed the dog and earned some money on their commissions and some of that money goes in their giving envelope and their giving envelope money goes into the offering plate at the church, whether they are five or fifteen they've experienced the joy of giving." Dave Ramsey

December 9, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"The goal is for them to leave your home and stay gone; we want them to come back to visit, not live." Dave Ramsey

December 3, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Helping is learning to say no lovingly, kindly, and firmly." Dave Ramsey

December 3, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"58 years old, that just boggles the mind, I mean it boggles the mind when they're 28 or 38 and they still haven't left mommy's basement but at 58, this guy is gonna die a boy, he still hasn't reached manhood." Dave Ramsey