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Dave Ramsey

Person Creator · Self-help, business & learning books · 16 mentions · 4 subreddits · discussed in r/personalfinance, r/battlestations, r/CreditCards, r/Frugal

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Pros

  • I’ve been following Dave Ramsey, Ramit Sethi, and Minority Mindset to try and educate myself.

Cons

  • Parent context: Maybe start with a step program like Dave Ramsey to give you some direction. Finances don’t need to be overly sophisticated. Reply: OP, avoid Dave Ramsey as best you can. He's good for a minority of people, and not for th...
  • Quit listening to Dave Ramsey and get a credit card or two.
  • Pretty much every popular financial advisor (like Dave Ramsry) keeps talking about how one shouldn't include Social Security when it comes to planning for retirement. I feel like it causes people who didn't have help from family, financi...
  • Amen, his call where he keeps saying that 8% is a safe withdrawal rate because his investments always do 12% is the dumbest thing ever.
  • Dave Ransey’s advice is crap once your net worth climbs above zero. Stop listening to him.

Sentiment

1 positive (6%) · 8 mixed (50%) · 7 negative (44%)

Trust + time weighted score: -37% · raw score -37%

What redditors said (10 of 16)

Parent context: Maybe start with a step program like Dave Ramsey to give you some direction. Finances don’t need to be overly sophisticated. Reply: OP, avoid Dave Ramsey as best you can. He's good for a minority of people, and not for the masses.
mixed · u/W****_ · r/personalfinance · comment · Dec 6, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Quit listening to Dave Ramsey and get a credit card or two.
negative · u/f****8 · r/personalfinance · comment · Aug 25, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Pretty much every popular financial advisor (like Dave Ramsry) keeps talking about how one shouldn't include Social Security when it comes to planning for retirement. I feel like it causes people who didn't have help from family, financially speaking, from living life.
negative · u/A****7 · r/personalfinance · Aug 4, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I’ve been following Dave Ramsey, Ramit Sethi, and Minority Mindset to try and educate myself.
positive · u/R****5 · r/personalfinance · comment · Jul 15, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Amen, his call where he keeps saying that 8% is a safe withdrawal rate because his investments always do 12% is the dumbest thing ever.
negative · u/S****e · r/personalfinance · comment · Feb 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Dave Ransey’s advice is crap once your net worth climbs above zero. Stop listening to him.
negative · u/M****s · r/personalfinance · comment · Feb 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Dave Ramsey is great for helping people get out of debt, but his investing advice is garbage
negative · u/W****e · r/personalfinance · comment · Feb 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Dave is unfortunately living in the 80s a lot of the time with stuff like this. It's objectively harmful to your financial future to pay off a 2.5% loan instead of investing in an average 10% return index fund in a tax advantaged account.
negative · u/E****7 · r/personalfinance · comment · Feb 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
He’s got good guidelines for people that were never taught to handle money, but it’s a starting point.
mixed · u/I****6 · r/personalfinance · comment · Feb 14, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Not all debt is created equal, dont listen to Dave Ramsey
negative · u/E****8 · r/personalfinance · comment · Feb 13, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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