Dave Ramsey Quotes

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

Get rid of debt now.

I'm the king of debt.

I promise not to take my thousands of dollars in student loan debt and move to Mexico. At least not right away.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

We have to make debt evil.