Dave Ramsey Quotes

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Graduation

• I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Singer
  • My Own

• On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Care
  • Environmental

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • May
  • Cool

• My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Child
  • Another

• Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Kids
  • Strong
  • Moral

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Communication
  • Answer

• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Laughter

• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • American
  • Achievement

• People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Free
  • Say

• It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Small
  • Limit
  • Surveillance

• In the denial of disorder there is order.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Single
  • Universe

• For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don't wear makeup, you hear things like, 'Oh wow, you look tired,' or, 'You're so brave for not wearing makeup!'

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Tired

• We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Done
  • Support

• I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

  

  David Powers

• I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Great
  • Success
  • Energy

• ...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Facts
  • Politician

• The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

  

  Bella Thorne
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Good
  • Live
  • Death

• So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Live
  • Saying

• Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

  

  Dave Ramsey