July 29, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I think the idea that somehow a J-O-B is gonna make your life stable is an illusion; what makes your life stable is your ability to go into the marketplace, kill something and drag it home." Dave Ramsey

July 29, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I had a choice of making 20 something thousand dollars a year or going back to doing something entrepreneurial and from the time I went bankrupt I was back in six figures within about 18 months and could always make a lot more on my own than I could make trying to work for somebody else." Dave Ramsey

June 5, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Does somebody want to hire someone nine months from today that's interviewing people? Probably not but we've hired people here nine months after we started interviewing them because it took a while and different things happened." Dave Ramsey

June 4, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"My first book was written between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m." Dave Ramsey

January 30, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"When you're broke and starving to death, you take whatever but when you got a little bit of margin, you could step back and be a little choosy and it causes your income to go up when you don't have debt." Dave Ramsey

September 30, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Why do you think that if you love something it has to pay crappy? Why can't it pay great and you love it? As a matter of fact, you're really not good at stuff you hate doing." Dave Ramsey

September 11, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"To go do something purely because it makes more money will put you into a miserable situation where your life is miserable." Dave Ramsey

August 9, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You need to take a job that's part of your overall life plan." Dave Ramsey

August 7, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You'd be surprised if you're waiting tables that you might run into somebody that will hire you; you won't run into them if you're sitting at home." Dave Ramsey

August 7, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Most jobs that are landed right now in our new economy are not based on resume and application blitzing, they're based on connectivity. So you need to find somebody that you know that works in some of those companies that you are trying to go to work for and get them to open a door for you." Dave Ramsey 

August 5, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"I hate to lose good folks when they go do their own thing but I've had 3 people leave here this year to start their own businesses and three of them had been here a long time and were not only great team members but close friends and they do that with my blessing." Dave Ramsey

March 27, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You are only as secure as your ability to land the next deal; no one has job security." Dave Ramsey

March 27, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Working for someone else gives you the illusion of security but at the end of the day you're self-employed everyday...all of us are." Dave Ramsey

January 21, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"$200,000 will not take you from [age] 56 to 96 even if you're debt free." Dave Ramsey

December 18, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"The stay-at-home mom brings economic value to the household: she's a taxi driver, she's a nurse, she's a tutor, she's a nanny, not to mention chief cook and bottle washer." Dave Ramsey

December 6, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"50's and 60's are many times your highest income earning years of you life but not if you're working part time at Walmart." Dave Ramsey

October 15, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"The number one problem that technicians have is marketing; he can do the work all day if somebody brings it to him [but] him going and getting the work is a skill he has never tried to develop." Dave Ramsey 

October 8, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"If you would move from using your hands to using your mind, two things are gonna happen: one is you're not gonna feel like 53 is old anymore and two is you're gonna make more money." Dave Ramsey 

July 23, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"There's nothing like excellence and gratefulness to cause promotions...that will get you a promotion more often than skill every time." Dave Ramsey

April 26, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"People like me that run businesses that have bootstrapped stuff for 20 years out of my living room, you walk into my presence [and] I can smell your stupid butt a mile away [and] I don't want you here. I try to hire people who add value not who are ticks in the butt of the organization sucking the blood out of it. I mean you hire somebody that wears stupid around their neck, let me tell you what they're gonna do: as soon as you hire them, they are gonna be gripping about what you pay and gripping about the working conditions [saying things like] I don't like the color of my office. Oh shut up and get to work! Seriously, the wuzzification of America, it is unbelievable" Dave Ramsey