Dave Ramsey: "You Can Decide to Be Somebody Tomorrow That You’re Not Today."
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Dave Ramsey shares a powerful lesson on leadership, passion, and the lid keeping your organization from growing. In this fired-up talk, he explains why talented people who don't care are worthless, the John Maxwell principle that exposes the real ceiling on every team, and the one thing every great leader has to do that the conductor of an orchestra does every night. This episode will challenge you to stop blaming your team and start leading like it matters.
Source: Dave Ramsey at the EntreLeadership Summit 2019
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| 0:00.0 | How many times you ever meet someone that says, well, you know, I really can't, I really can't do the |
| 0:05.1 | kind of stuff that you're talking about because, you know, I just graduated from high school. |
| 0:09.8 | So did Dave Thomas, who started Wendy's. |
| 0:13.4 | What's your problem? |
| 0:17.3 | Really? These are decisions. If you don't have the education that makes you proud, go get it. |
| 0:23.6 | You don't have to have a PhD in management. |
| 0:26.6 | That's absurd. |
| 0:27.6 | You don't need that unless you're going to teach people who aren't going to run a business. Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:50.6 | I am your host, Sean Croxton, a Sean Croxton. |
| 0:53.0 | We've got my main man, Dave Ramsey, back on the show. Our am your host Sean Croxton of Sean Croxton.com. We've got my main man, |
| 0:55.3 | Dave Ramsey, back on the show. Our QOD is this. You can decide to be somebody tomorrow |
| 1:01.4 | that you're not today. So he's going to discuss how problems and opportunities and our wins |
| 1:07.6 | and our losses and our mistakes all really come down to leadership or the lack thereof. |
| 1:15.0 | He's also going to deliver the bad news and the good news about your level of leadership. |
| 1:21.8 | Dave Ramsey's coming up. |
| 1:24.7 | Small business accounts for 55% of the jobs in America today, and since 1970, accounts for |
| 1:31.2 | seven out of 10 new jobs. |
| 1:34.4 | This is real. |
| 1:36.2 | This is real. |
| 1:36.9 | The free enterprise system is alive and well. |
| 1:40.0 | Socialism sucks. |
| 1:41.5 | I'm a capitalist pig. |
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