October 14, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"One of the fears parents have about actually winning with money is your afraid you're gonna mess up your kids; you can actually become wealthy and have fairly, reasonably functional children." Dave Ramsey 

September 22, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"My sons-in-law both married women that knew how to do a budget and live on a budget instead of princesses. It's a wonderful gift, they owe me big time." 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

February 18, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"There's four things all parents should teach their kids before they leave home: to work, give, save, and to spend wisely." 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

October 14, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Parents who do not teach their children to do chores and reasonable amounts of work associated with their age, raise children who have an entitlement mentality and think the world owes them a living and I'm tired of paying taxes to support these lazy brats." Dave Ramsey

March 27, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"When you tell your 17, 18, or 21 year old to go get a credit card or to build their credit, what you are saying is you don't believe they will have a good life unless they have debt." Dave Ramsey

March 18, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"If you don't correct an 18 year old with an attitude and entitlement problem, you're gonna have a 28 year old living in your basement with two babies." Dave Ramsey

February 15, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Once you learn to work, there's three areas you have to learn to do with money when you're a kid: give, save, and spend wisely." Dave Ramsey

November 30, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Sharon and I took a lifestyle, a pay cut, a slow down, in all of our financial goals for her to be full time with the kids 26 years ago and [now] I look back and say that was an incredible investment." Dave Ramsey 

August 1, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"If my kids are not gonna live their lives in a way that's consistent with the Ramsey value system and they are not gonna make choices that I'm ok with, I don't have any obligation to finance their stupidity or their craziness and I'm not going to." Dave Ramsey

July 27, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Allowance sounds like welfare to me." Dave Ramsey

July 27, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"One of the reasons we've got some of the societal problems we have today is that parents haven't taught their kids life skills; oh, they can win level 7 on Mario Kart but they don't have life skills, they get straight A's at school but they don't have life skills." Dave Ramsey

July 12, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"You do need to give them [kids] enough rope to make mistakes that hurt them and let them feel the pain." Dave Ramsey