Live Blog – 59 Leadership Quotes From Dave Ramsey At Most Excellent Way To Lead Conference

In an effort to add maximum value to pastors and church leaders, INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched me to attend The Most Excellent Way To Lead Conference at NewSpring Church.  I will be bringing some of the top leadership lessons from the conference designed to challenge and equip pastors and church leaders to take their leadership to a higher level.

Author, speaker, radio host, motivational speaker and business leader Dave Ramsey was up next.  Utilizing his unique style of communication, Dave talked about the 7 Essentials For Inspiration.

Before getting to his comments, I want to invite you to a FREE, LIVE webinar I will be conducting on March 30th entitled “10 Keys To A Successful Fall Capital Campaign.”  If your church needs to raise funds this fall, click HERE.  It would be an honor to personally invest in you and your leadership.  Now, onto Dave’s thoughts.

The following are 59 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Dave Ramsey at The Most Excellent Way To Lead Conference:

1. The good news about conferences like this is it changes your perspective.
2. If I’d known how great grandbabies were going to be I would have been nicer to their parents.
3. It is our job to help folks get perspective.
4. The definition of leading is you got there first.
5. Leaders pull. Bosses push.
6. I don’t have employees. I have 544 team members.
7. We are very intentional with the idea of inspiring people.
8. Organizations that don’t create a culture of inspiration flounder.
9. Have you ever been in a church where nobody’s happy?
10. Inspired teams change the whole customer experience.
11. If you don’t have an inspired experience you’ll be blaming the economy when you go out of business. It’s not the economy. It’s a lack of leadership.
12. Can you imagine about being inspired about heating and air? You can if you own the company.
13. Your organization has to create an inspired experience. It has to be on purpose and it’s not an accident.
14. Inspiration touches the emotions and it causes activity.
15. Your customers are people. And if you’re inspired you create a relationship, not a transaction.
16. The devil hates it when you take notes.
17. You have to constantly be talking about where you’re going.
18. You want to go out business? Where there is no vision….roadkill. Dead animal in the road. Perish.
19. I love capitalism.
20. Capitalism chews up a lack of excellence and spits it out. You’ve got to bring it.
21. When they walk into your church, they’re not looking for you. They’re looking for something and they don’t even know what it is.
22. The pastor and his wife hugged me into the Kingdom.
23. If you want inspiration in your organization you have to have compensation.
24. I was so dumb I thought if you hired people, they would work.
25. We had to have a stable of thoroughbreds.
26. Thoroughbreds don’t want to be in the same stable as donkeys.
27. If you want thoroughbreds, you have to pay them. Thoroughbreds cost more than donkeys.
28. If you want to win the Derby, you have to write some checks. Thoroughbreds don’t eat donkey food.
29. Your team needs to have a mindset this is not a JOB. I’m a crusader.
30. You don’t accidently get to the Super Bowl.
31. You don’t accidently wander into success.
32. I didn’t how many times my heart was going to get broken.
33. Getting people out of debt. Me and Jenny Craig got a lot of work to do.
34. Why Matters.
35. I love millennials. I’ve got an office full of them.
36. We don’t ship books. We ship hope. If you don’t get that, we’re going to ship you.
37. Tell your team stories. Remind them how we got here. Sometimes because we don’t ever want to go back.
38. The average person coming on board goes through 14 interviews.
39. You are standing on the shoulders of giants.
40. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants. – Sir Isaac Newton
41. The team should know what you would do when you are not there.
42. Very predictable cultures gives people the courage to make decisions.
43. My reputation makes me worthy of trust which gives me credibility to speak into your life.
44. You treat your team like you would want to be treated.
45. If you decide to sleep with people you’re not married to, I will fire you. Adulterers are not a federally protected class.
46. If his wife can’t trust him, I can’t trust him.
47. When you have a predictable culture, people can replicate your decisions and that gives them dignity.
48. There is no energy in logic, only in passion.
49. There is nothing logical about believing in a Man that rose from a grave 2000 years ago. But you can’t argue I am not the man I was before I walked in the back of the church and He changed my life.
50. When in doubt, bust into something. Move something. Expect friction.
51. When you start preaching big someone’s going to call you unqualified. Just expect it.
52. If you want to criticize me, bring it.
53. Quit finding stuff wrong with people. Do something.
54. You’ve got to be an example.
55. More is caught than taught.
56. You probably handle money exactly like your parents or exactly the opposite of your parents.
57. Cruise control doesn’t win. You don’t get to the Super Bowl on cruise control.
58. As a leader we are supposed to set the pace. We are to set the tone.
59. Don’t think small and don’t play small.

It has been an amazing day.  Perry Noble will be returning to the stage next to close out the conference.

As a reminder, if your church needs to raise capital this fall, click HERE or on the image provided to sign up for my March 30th FREE, LIVE webinar entitled 10 Keys To A Successful Fall Capital Campaign.  It would be an honor to serve you and your church.