Dave Ramsey, a personal money management expert, is an extremely popular national radio personality, and author of the New York Times best-sellers The Total Money Makeover, Financial Peace and More Than Enough. On Oct. 15, 2007, Ramsey added television host to title when “The Dave Ramsey Show on Fox Business Network” debuted nationally. Ramsey knows first-hand what financial peace means in his own life – living a true rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story. By age twenty-six he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and now devotes himself full-time to helping ordinary people understand the forces behind their financial distress and how to set things right – financially, emotionally and spiritually. He resides with his wife Sharon and their three children in Nashville, Tennessee.
- It’s necessary to be present.
- We need to be roaring lambs.
- We need to take back ground for Christ.
- We want to be evangelists with our excellence.
- They decided to run their business God’s way.
- You don’t know you have a bad idea when you are in the middle of it.
- It’s important to be present.
- Leadership matters.
- The mechanics that flow out of leadership matter.
- In the middle of a transactional culture, you need to be intentionally relational.
- Success in today’s world is in direct proportion to your relational IQ.
- If you start looking at your customers as “units,” you’re going to run into a problem.
- Customers are people, and people matter.
- You need to hear their story.
- When you have interaction with them, you will see there’s a story going on.
- We all have a story.
- Stop and value what’s happening in people’s lives.
- Take time to hear their story.
- Thou Shall Prosper: your opportunities come through people.
- We do not have a choice as Christians.
- The world demands excellence.
- People have unique gifts to bring, we need to make sure we put the right people in the right seats.
- Take the amount of time you are spending on staffing and double it or quadruple it.
- They do multiple interviews over the course of 60 days at Dave Ramsey.
- They also do a spousal interview.
- God has a plan for you. It’s a plan to bring you hope, not harm.
- “Love Jesus” shouldn’t be the only qualification for hiring someone on your ministry team.
- An incredible team in a culture of excellence matters.
- My HR manual is, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
- Do not let your life, ministry or organization go faster than your resources.
- If you do, you’ll have the problem.
- God will send you as much as you need.
- Don’t go faster than your human resources allow.
- Don’t take on more customers than you can take care of.
- Care well for the ones you have.
- As God sends you the people and the resources, you can expand.
- You’ll mess up doing it wrong… it’s better to hold on and wait.
- Don’t advance past your supply line.
- We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.
- Live on less than you make.
- Save money.
- Stay out of debt.
- Have a plan… budget, plan, think ahead.
- Be generous.
- Generosity isn’t just what you give, it’s also how you treat people.
- Your work is an act of worship.
- God is inordinately pleased when we are obsessively, compulsively preoccupied with others.
- We are supposed to be a peculiar people… we are supposed to be weird.
- Do your work as unto the Lord.
- Want to get out of your current job? Do you work with so much excellence and passion that the competitor will steal you.
- Work heartily as unto the Lord.
- Do your work with excellence.
- People will want to know why you do what you do.
- Care deeply about “why” you are doing what you are doing.
- We have a higher calling.
- Readdress it each day as you step into the task of your calling.
- The “why” helps your execution.
- As you execute these 5 ideas, it will cause things to happen.
- We are in a sowing and reaping environment.
- We reap what we sow.
- There will be a day for each one of us when Jesus will call us home.
- We want to hear Him say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
- What are you doing with your time here on earth?
