24 Facts About Dave Ramsey

Dave Ramsey has written several books, including The New York Times bestseller The Total Money Makeover, and hosted a television show on Fox Business from 2007 to 2010.

Dave Ramsey was born in Antioch, Tennessee, to real estate developers.

Dave Ramsey attended Antioch High School where he played ice hockey.

At age 18, Dave Ramsey took the real estate exam and began selling property, working through college at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate.

Dave Ramsey was unable to pay and filed for bankruptcy in 1988.

Dave Ramsey experienced several years of financial recovery and began offering financial advice to couples at his local church.

The Gannett newspaper group ran his financial column, though it was dropped when they realized that Dave Ramsey had changed the names on the letters to which he was responding.

The Dave Ramsey Show aired on the Fox Business Network from 2007 to 2010.

Dave Ramsey has written five books for adults, three of which were New York Times bestsellers, and six children's books.

Dave Ramsey was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2015.

In 2014, The Daily Beast reported that Dave Ramsey had lashed out against former employees he claimed were discussing working conditions at the company on Facebook and Twitter.

At company staff meetings, Dave Ramsey recounted conversations from a private Facebook group of former employees that he had infiltrated, eventually offering cash rewards for the identities of some members who took to anonymous Twitter accounts once they realized Dave Ramsey had joined the private group.

The incident prompted increased backlash, a meeting Dave Ramsey set up to confront critics, and the eventual deletion of several of the critical Twitter accounts.

In May 2021, Religion News Service obtained recordings of Dave Ramsey mocking employees over the policy and explaining Hogan's 2019 absence as a "rest break" following the affair accusations.

Dave Ramsey Solutions responded that there was no truth to the complaint.

On his radio show and in staff meetings, Dave Ramsey railed against face coverings and other COVID-19 precautions, calling them "a sign of fear".

The lawsuit said Dave Ramsey ran a "cultlike" environment where employees who worried about the pandemic were accused of "weakness of spirit" and told to pray if they wanted to ward off the virus.

Dave Ramsey advises listeners to first reduce debt using the debt snowball method, where debtors pay off their lowest balances first.

Dave Ramsey encourages the use of cash and advises families to utilize an envelope system, putting a cash allocation for each month's food, entertainment, etc.

Dave Ramsey encourages people not to take on student loan debt and calls the idea that student loans are required for college "a myth".

Dave Ramsey had an estimated net worth of $55 million as of 2018.

Dave Ramsey sold his custom-built home in the Nashville, Tennessee, area for $10.2million in 2021 after living there for over a decade.

Dave Ramsey is an evangelical Christian who describes himself as conservative, both fiscally and culturally.

Dave Ramsey has blamed politics for what he considers Americans' economic dependence, and has said presidents should do "as little as possible" about the economy.