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Ramit Sethi

Founder and CEO, I Will Teach You To Be Rich · 2 appearances on the record.

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Ramit Sethi wrote the New York Times bestseller I Will Teach You to Be Rich and hosted the 2023 Netflix financial docuseries How to Get Rich. He runs an online education platform and hosts a podcast counseling couples through financial decisions, having also co-founded the commercial wiki startup PBworks.

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1 prediction · 4 assertions · 4 opinions · 21 insights · 13 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ramit argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Sethi: Jay Abraham grew Icy Hot using zero-risk remnant radio advertising
“Icy Hot was one of his, and he has a fantastic story. He bought remnant radio advertising. He paid a hundred percent of the first fee to the radio station. So it was no risk to them. And then he took the long-term profits and grew that business in a massive wa…”
Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 13:23 Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi

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Everything Ramit Sethi said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Sethi: Banning indebted customers from flagship courses costs him millions annually
“For example, I don't allow people with credit card debt. To join our flagship programs, the higher end ones. That costs us millions of dollars every year.”
Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 14:24 Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi
Insight
Sethi: Marrying Solely for Love Is an Ahistorical Concept
“When you are married, you are running a business. It is the business of running a household together, and it's only in the last hundred or so years that Americans became infatuated with this idea of love as the only reason to get married. That's ahistorical.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 1:52 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Opinion
Sethi: Financial Optimizers Make Difficult Romantic Partners
“Optimizers are really hard to be partners with because they always go, how much does it cost? That's all they're concerned with”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 6:29 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Financial Dreamers Often Require Subsidies and Fall for Scams
“Dreamers, it's the next gig. It's the next deal. These are the folks who typically fall into get rich quick schemes, and they are incredibly difficult to be partners with. They're not listening. They're not reading my book. Let's put it that way. And the only …”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 6:56 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Having One Designated 'Money Person' in a Relationship Is Dangerous
“So, in most relationships, there is one money person, and this is a huge mistake.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 26:03 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Opinion
Sethi: Buying a Primary Residence Is Often a Terrible Financial Investment
“Buying a primary residence is, is sometimes, but often not, a great investment.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 40:46 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi Recommends Joint Marital Accounts Combined With Individual Spending Allowances
“So the way that you set up your accounts to be united in a marriage, I highly recommend all the money goes into a Joint account. And from there, you each have some of the money flow to a separate individual account, a no questions asked account, which both of …”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 45:30 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Opinion
Sethi: Top course creators could easily double revenue by sacrificing integrity
“High integrity. And we can talk about why integrity is lacking in the course business because it is they run the business the way they want to. Each of those could easily double their revenue. Easily. If they did a couple of different decisions, they don't. An…”
Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 10:31 Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi
Insight
Sethi: Over-relying strictly on direct ROI attribution is a massive mistake
“There's more to life than metrics, you Silicon Valley nerds. That's a huge mistake that all these ROI attribution positive. Sometimes, in fact, the best companies know that's why they advertise in Times Square. They can't track that, but they do it because it'…”
Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 12:11 Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi
Opinion
Sethi: Half of pet businesses sell 'complete horseshit'
“Because half these pet businesses are complete horseshit.”
Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 35:34 Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi
Insight
Sethi: Founders should allocate business profits to boring Vanguard index funds
“Hey, take a little bit, put it in the market, boring Vanguard funds, do this stuff. Of course they haven't read my book, do this stuff in the book. And when you do that, you will be wealthier than you can possibly imagine. And you, your risk will be decreased …”
Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 43:52 Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sethi: 15% Annual Index Returns Will Not Continue Indefinitely
“Even an index investor made over 15% annualized returns, which is insane. But the music doesn't keep playing.”
Ramit Sethi Aug 27, 2021 ▶ 51:28 Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Sethi
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sethi: The 'Avoider' Is the Most Common Financial Archetype
“First, avoider. This is the most common. They avoid money. They do a series of conscious and unconscious techniques to do it.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 5:35 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Annual Financial Reviews Should Start With Photos, Not Spreadsheets
“So in, in every December, we have an annual rich life review, and I would encourage everybody to do this. So we sit down and we do it over several days. We're in no rush. And we start off by just going through our photos from the year and we go like, what were…”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 10:28 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Multiply Wedding Budgets by 2.5x and Travel Budgets by 50%
“So, for example, for like a wedding, You, 2.5 X, like right there. Okay. For a trip for travel, add 50% right off the bat. So if you think your trip is gonna be 3000, it's actually gonna be 45.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 14:44 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Add a 15% Buffer to Budgeted Fixed Household Costs
“Typically, I would say add 15%, because there are things that people forget about. That's just a good guideline.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 15:15 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Only Adopt Recurring Lifestyle Upgrades if Permanently Affordable
“Be very, very careful before you make a purchase that is recurring, and you don't want to go back. Once you do it, make sure you're solid forever.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 21:24 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sethi: 50% of Consulting Couples Do Not Know Their Household Income
“50% of couples who talk to me do not know their household income. Five zero. They don't know their household income.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 24:15 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Feelings About Money Are Uncorrelated With Bank Account Balances
“And what it really shows is the way you feel about money is highly uncorrelated to the amount in your bank account.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 25:02 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Net Worth Increases Faster Than Psychological Comfort With Spending
“When the numbers change, they change faster than the psychology changes.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 35:36 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: Spending Money Is a Skill as Vital as Earning It
“Over time you learn that spending money as a skill is often as important as earning and managing it too.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 38:37 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: True Investments Must Strictly Generate a Direct Financial Return
“So my answer for an investment, I narrowly define it as something that can provide a financial return.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 42:28 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: High-Earning Couples Arguing Over $3 Purchases Have Misaligned Systems
“You should not be talking about three dollar purchases if you're making 200,000 dollars a year. If you are talking about three dollar purchases, you have misaligned your money systems, and you probably don't have a rich life.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 45:15 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples
Insight
Sethi: There Is No Prize for Living an Unnecessarily Small Life
“But I also think that there is no prize given for living a smaller life than you have to.”
Ramit Sethi Jan 6, 2025 ▶ 50:46 56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
56 Minutes of Money Wisdom for High-Earning Couples Jan 6, 2025 34m
Why You Should Have a Diversified Investment Portfolio | My First Million #214 with Ramit Aug 27, 2021 44m
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