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Dave Ramsey's book list: the books mentioned on The Ramsey Show
Recently mentioned books
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Build a Business You Love
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Die with Zero
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The Total Money Makeover
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What No One Tells You About Money
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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Nothing Down for the 2000s
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Creating Wealth
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Smart Money Smart Kids
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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The Proximity Principle
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The E-Myth Revisited
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See You at the Top
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Your Desired Future
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Jump and Find Joy
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Dave Ramseys Complete Guide To Money The Handbook Of Financial Peace University
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Ecclesiastes
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Thou Shall Prosper
Most recommended on The Ramsey Show
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The Total Money Makeover
Recommended“We're going to give you total money makeover the book because what we're going to start to do is we're going to start to pay off this debt starting with the credit card, the car.”
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Build a Business You Love
Recommended“And we'll gift you Dave's book, Build a Business You Love.”
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Smart Money Smart Kids
Recommended“It's called Smart Money, Smart Kids. How to teach kids how to handle money. It's a parenting manual on that and it'll help you.”
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Discussed“So, there was an old book out years ago that, Dr. Steven Cvy put out and it was made famous because it was kind of like the total money makeover. It stayed on the bestseller list for like a decade... the book was the seven habits of highly effective people”
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The Proximity Principle
Recommended“I'm going to send you a copy of Ken Coleman's book, The Proximity Principle, and I want you to use it to land that job cuz obviously you know how to juggle.”
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Creating Wealth
Critiqued“He wrote off two books, Nothing Down and Creating Wealth. And neither one worked.”
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Dave Ramseys Complete Guide To Money The Handbook Of Financial Peace University
Recommended“And so I would get with with a marriage counselor um or I would go through Financial Peace University as well.”
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Die with Zero
Recommended“And a good book for him. This is not a Ramsey book. I don't agree with everything in the book, but it's called Die With Zero. And for a lot of people, this has helped them unlock the purpose of money and helping them use it now while they're alive, while they have young kids versus in letting their kids”
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Ecclesiastes
Recommended“I should have recommended a book for him and it's not a modern self-help book. It's the book of Ecclesiastes. I think that is the best book. If you're going through an existential crisis, it'll help you reveal what matters. Cuz here's the the TLDR, the big quote of the book is everything is meaningless.”
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Jump and Find Joy
Discussed“You know, I I just love calls like this because it reminds me uh I read a book by Hoda Cottby. It's called Jump and Find Joy. Anyway, in the book, she's talking about how you can be going through life and you can just stop”
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Nothing Down for the 2000s
Critiqued“The guy who wrote nothing down was a guy named Robert Allen in 1982.”
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Critiqued“I think he tried to buy too many too fast and he followed the Robert Kiasaki way and kept telling me you got to get into debt to make money, which I strongly disagreed with, but um he kind of just kept going anyway.”
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See You at the Top
Discussed“If you've ever heard of the power of positive thinking or goal setting or salesmanship, uh, see you at the top was his largest book. Um, it was absolutely incredible.”
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The E-Myth Revisited
Recommended“There's a book called uh E-Myth by Michael Gerber that I read 25 or 35 years ago. Um and it's an incredible book.”
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Thou Shall Prosper
Recommended“uh Rabbi Daniel lapen my good friend I I met him because I read his book Thou shalt Prosper uh for those of you that don't know he's an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and this is one of my favorite books on money and economics um definitely in the top 10 of books I've ever read on the subject”
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What No One Tells You About Money
Recommended“matter of fact, Christian, will you send her a copy of What No One Tells You About Money? I talk about this a lot in that book because that's what happened with Sam and I.”
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Your Desired Future
Recommended“I'm going to send you Desired Future by Henry Cloud, which is you need to say say out out loud what my desired future is.”
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Guests who recommended books
Latest mentions
Recommended Build a Business You Love
“And we'll gift you Dave's book, Build a Business You Love.”
Recommended Die with Zero
“And a good book for him. This is not a Ramsey book. I don't agree with everything in the book, but it's called Die With Zero. And for a lot of people, this has helped them unlock the purpose of money and helping them use it now while they're alive, while they have young kids versus in letting their kids”
Recommended The Total Money Makeover
“We're going to give you total money makeover the book because what we're going to start to do is we're going to start to pay off this debt starting with the credit card, the car.”
Recommended What No One Tells You About Money
“matter of fact, Christian, will you send her a copy of What No One Tells You About Money? I talk about this a lot in that book because that's what happened with Sam and I.”
Critiqued Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“I think he tried to buy too many too fast and he followed the Robert Kiasaki way and kept telling me you got to get into debt to make money, which I strongly disagreed with, but um he kind of just kept going anyway.”
Critiqued Nothing Down for the 2000s
“The guy who wrote nothing down was a guy named Robert Allen in 1982.”
Critiqued Creating Wealth
“He wrote off two books, Nothing Down and Creating Wealth. And neither one worked.”
Recommended Smart Money Smart Kids
“It's called Smart Money, Smart Kids. How to teach kids how to handle money. It's a parenting manual on that and it'll help you.”
Discussed The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“So, there was an old book out years ago that, Dr. Steven Cvy put out and it was made famous because it was kind of like the total money makeover. It stayed on the bestseller list for like a decade... the book was the seven habits of highly effective people”
Recommended The Proximity Principle
“I'm going to send you a copy of Ken Coleman's book, The Proximity Principle, and I want you to use it to land that job cuz obviously you know how to juggle.”
Recommended The E-Myth Revisited
“There's a book called uh E-Myth by Michael Gerber that I read 25 or 35 years ago. Um and it's an incredible book.”
Discussed See You at the Top
“If you've ever heard of the power of positive thinking or goal setting or salesmanship, uh, see you at the top was his largest book. Um, it was absolutely incredible.”
Recommended Your Desired Future
“I'm going to send you Desired Future by Henry Cloud, which is you need to say say out out loud what my desired future is.”
Discussed Jump and Find Joy
“You know, I I just love calls like this because it reminds me uh I read a book by Hoda Cottby. It's called Jump and Find Joy. Anyway, in the book, she's talking about how you can be going through life and you can just stop”
“And so I would get with with a marriage counselor um or I would go through Financial Peace University as well.”
Recommended Ecclesiastes
“I should have recommended a book for him and it's not a modern self-help book. It's the book of Ecclesiastes. I think that is the best book. If you're going through an existential crisis, it'll help you reveal what matters. Cuz here's the the TLDR, the big quote of the book is everything is meaningless.”
Recommended Thou Shall Prosper
“uh Rabbi Daniel lapen my good friend I I met him because I read his book Thou shalt Prosper uh for those of you that don't know he's an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and this is one of my favorite books on money and economics um definitely in the top 10 of books I've ever read on the subject”