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Ramit Sethi—Spending Less is the Wrong Strategy

Good Money with Derrick Kinney

Derrick Kinney

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What does a rich life look like? Ramit Sethi shares how having a clear vision of your rich life allows you to use your money on the things that matter most. He says it’s normal to make mistakes with money and that you should start building habits early so you don’t make the same mistakes with $1 million that you did with $100. And if you’re thinking about how to make your money go further, Ramit reminds us that there’s a limit on what you can cut, but there’s no limit on what you can earn!

What you will learn:

  • Money does change people
  • How you can spend extravagantly
  • Stop focusing on the $3 questions
  • How to negotiate your salary
  • Why we crave wealth but also hate it
  • What is your money dial?
  • You will make mistakes with money
  • Don’t take advice from losers
  • Giving is a critical part of a rich life

Quotes:

  • “In my experience, money does change people. It should. It has allowed me to dream bigger. It’s allowed me to take more adventures. It’s allowed me to give more.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “Saving $3 a day is not going to change the course of your financial life.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “If you begin your financial life believing that having more money will change you or will turn you evil, then you have effectively no chance of growing your financial wealth.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “There are lots of reasons to stay or to leave, but simply saying, ‘I’m underpaid, please play me more,’ that’s not persuasive. It’s about demonstrating value and communicating this in the correct way.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “You have a certain level of happiness, great, but there are other factors like life satisfaction that you can directly use money to influence.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “Every one of us has money now, something that we love to spend money on. Almost none of us have ever contemplated spending more on it.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “You can spend extravagantly on the things you love when you cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “What could be more meaningful than taking the thing you love, your money dial, and doubling down on that?” – Ramit Sethi
  • “If you feel stuck with your money, that’s normal, but just acknowledging it is not enough. The next step is to make a plan and start getting educated about it.” – Ramit Sethi
  • “Why would we take advice from people who are not in the financial situation that we admire?” – Ramit Sethi

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Transcript

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0:00.0

When it comes to money, you deserve to have the tools so you can earn more, save more and give more.

0:06.2

Then you can create the life you've always wanted. You could be the hero that helps change

0:11.5

the direction of your entire family for generations to come.

0:15.0

We're glad you're in the Good Money Community.

0:18.0

And now here's the podcast. Welcome to the Good Money Show, where we believe money is not bad and good people should have more of it.

0:32.0

Good Money in the hands of good people gets good

0:35.0

work done. I'm your host Derek Kenny. Do you wonder if you should cut out your daily

0:40.2

latte to save money? My guest today says to stop asking the $3

0:45.0

dollar questions and start asking the $30,000 ones.

0:49.0

New York Times best-selling author, Ramit Saiti, says it begins with your money dials. He shares that the secret

0:56.0

to a rich life is enjoying the things that matter most to you and spending extravagantly on the

1:01.8

things you love.

1:03.0

And he tells us why you should only take money advice

1:06.0

from people whose financial situation you admire.

1:10.0

I think you'll enjoy my conversation with Ramat, Saatie.

1:12.9

Ramat, welcome to the show.

1:14.5

Derek, thanks for having me.

1:16.2

Well, I have been so looking forward to our time together, Ramat

1:19.2

because you have written a great book,

1:21.2

but more importantly, you're so relatable when it comes to money so let's

1:25.4

dig right in what are the wealth triggers you talk about that separate the wealthy

1:31.5

from everyone else.

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