Dave Ramsey
Founder & CEO, Ramsey Solutions. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dave Ramsey is the founder and CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He hosts the nationally syndicated radio program The Ramsey Show and has authored bestselling personal finance books including The Total Money Makeover.
Everything Dave Ramsey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ramsey: Spouses of candidates and hiring managers must attend final interviews
“The spouses go on the final interview, both the person being hired and the leader leading them, hiring them, because the spouses can smell a rat a mile away”
Ramsey: Employee raises are earned by productivity, not degrees or certifications
“Your raise is effective when you are. It's not when you get another degree. Don't, I couldn't care less about your certification, except the, except it gives you the ability to get something done. And that's all it's good for.”
Dave Ramsey immediately vetoes any job candidate if his wife dislikes them
“If my wife says that, we don't hire them. And that, she's probably said it three times in 30 years.”
Ramsey Solutions projects 96% of revenue would survive if Dave Ramsey died
“Our survivability index, which is our accounting metric, says that 96% of the revenue will survive me if I died a day. The next year, 96% would survive me.”
Ramsey officially defines workplace gossip as venting without resolution authority
“When you're talking to people that can't do something about the issue, that by definition here
Is gossip.”
Ramsey Solutions operates entirely debt-free and uses zero corporate credit cards
“We really don't borrow money, and we really live on a budget, and we really live on less than we make, and we really don't have credit cards. We really do the stuff we teach.”
Dave Ramsey built his $600M corporate campus entirely without debt
“It's probably worth about six hundred million right now, but somewhere in that range. But yeah, we built it all and for about the first 42 acres of dirt and then we added 22 more acres to that.”
Ramsey reduced his personal debt from $3M to $328K before bankruptcy
“We took the debt from three million down to 328,000 in two and a half years.”
Dave Ramsey faced 78 creditor lawsuits during his personal financial collapse
“We got sued 78 times and all of them were right, because I owed them money, and I didn't pay them”
Dave Ramsey took 10 years to fully repay his bankruptcy creditors
“I went back and paid them all back. It took 10 years”
Dave Ramsey states Ramsey Solutions generates $300 million in annual revenue
“I mean, we run a three hundred million dollar company.”
Ramsey Solutions employs approximately 450 people on its digital team alone
“We've got 450 some odd folks just on our digital team.”
Ramsey Solutions' high school curriculum division generates $25 million annually
“Our high school curriculum is you know, 10, it's a twenty-five million dollar a year business, and people buying higher high school curriculum to teach it in high schools. It's almost zero dependent on me.”
The Ramsey Show ratings increased while Dave Ramsey was on vacation
“When the Ramsey personalities are sitting, doing the Ramsey show, which was originally the Dave Ramsey show. Now it's called the Ramsey show. And when they're sitting and doing it you know, I took several weeks off and Sharon and I were out of the country. And…”
The other half of the tape: Dave Ramsey's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 45 times in 8 episodes across the shows. 8 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 28Rory Vaden 10Caleb Hammer 7
Statements about Dave Ramsey, by other people (8)
Hammer: Ramsey's 6-7% Retirement Withdrawal Rule Is Dangerous
“They suggest you can withdraw six to seven percent a year. And just live off of it forever. Cause it averages 10% a year, but it makes no sense. Like no financial model agrees with that. You, four percent has a 95% chance of completion. Even four percent is no…”
Hammer: Dave Ramsey's $2,000 Beater Car Strategy Doesn't Work Anymore
“So the classic Dave Ramsey, 2000 hour car, that's, they're going to be putting 2000 hours into it every few months just to keep it going. And that doesn't work anymore.”
Hammer: A Reliable Used 'Beater' Car Now Costs Around $10,000
“I mean, a two to 3000 hour car, three to 4000 hour car that also puts you in a bad financial position. Cause it's not pre pandemic times where you could get a beater. Like that now your new beater that's going to be reliable for a while is like, 10 K.”
Hammer: Ramsey's $1,000 Starter Emergency Fund Rule Is Outdated
“Sticking to a thousand dollars since, like, the nineties for A starter emergency fund is kind of fucking crazy.”
Sanchez: Dave Ramsey's corporate headquarters operates entirely on debit cards
“But then I've been to his headquarters and he, like, for instance, they don't have credit cards. Zero credit. The entire place, nobody has a credit card in it. They have debit cards only.”
Sanchez: Dave Ramsey's Company Fires Employees Caught Gossiping
“He says, at my company, we have a no gossip rule. We just don't allow it. And so if anybody's gossiping or talking about anybody, and they find out at Dave Ramsey, you get fired.”
Sanchez: Dave Ramsey's company fires employees after two gossip offenses
“Dave Ramsey's company when I went and went to his headquarters, and I have a lot of respect for Dave in many ways, is they have a no gossip policy. It's really aggressive at their company. And if you're, if you know, you do it, and another team member hears yo…”
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2026 19 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- The #1 Money Habit That Separates Winners from Losers | Caleb Hammer
- 5 Habits Constantly Draining Your Energy | Yung Pueblo
- Stop Being Nice: The C.L.E.A.R. Method for Earning Respect
- Ex-Amazon VP: Lessons from Working with Jeff Bezos that Changed My Life | Ethan Evans
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2025 22 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dave's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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| BIGDEALLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Ramsey Solutions | 2 | 15 | — | full record on BigDeal → |