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

July 29, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"When I went broke, one of the biggest things I had to do, recovery-wise, was to recover spiritually because I felt like crap...it was the lowest point of self-esteem I can remember." Dave Ramsey

June 5, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"What happens to a lot of folks is once they start concentrating on the details of their money, they start thinking about new ways to make money." Dave Ramsey

January 30, 2014 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"In marketing in general there is no substitute for activity, so when in doubt, you move something." 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

November 6, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"The illusion of salary is you think there's an assurance, there's not an assurance. Your only assurance is you have a conversation through business with the marketplace and the conversation smiles and that's called profit." 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

August 16, 2013 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"When you're sitting there and your budget is under control, you're unemployed and you have an emergency fund that you have not even yet touched, it changes the way you sit in the [job] interview, doesn't it? That enables you to get a job that pays more than the one you lost." 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)

"There's no rule that says that you don't get a job next week making more than you used to and this turns into a blessing; that can happen if you actually aim at it and kinda think that way." 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 

November 26, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"People walking around with degrees that think that society owes them a job are full of crap...society owes you an opportunity, that's all you're owed." Dave Ramsey

October 19, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Almost all jobs are landed through somebody you know, not through the newspaper or the internet; very few people get a job by sitting at home in their sweatpants applying over the internet...like none!" Dave Ramsey

August 2, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"The failure is not fatal except to the extent that you allow it to overtake you spiritually, emotionally, and relationally." Dave Ramsey 

June 12, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"If you can't find a job, you know what you need to do, you start a business." Dave Ramsey 

April 11, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"Throw a brick through your TV and start an exercise program as soon as you get laid off. Unplug the TV at a minimum. Don't even turn the stupid thing on [because] there's nothing on there that's gonna lift you" Dave Ramsey 

April 11, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"One way I'm guaranteeing you are going to become depressed: sit on your couch, do nothing and watch Oprah reruns. 100% of the time you will become depressed" Dave Ramsey

April 11, 2012 (The Dave Ramsey Show)

"When you get fired [and] you lose your job, you immediately need to join a gym, you need to lace up the running shoes. You've got to exercise when you're in a career crisis" Dave Ramsey