Dave Ramsey Says Doctors And Lawyers Are Like Actors, Notoriously Bad With Money — ‘Just Because You Make A Lot Doesn’t Mean You’re Winning’
Dave Ramsey is once again calling out high-income earners who can’t seem to keep their financial house in order — and this time, he’s grouping doctors and lawyers with actors and musicians.
“Medical doctors are about as notorious as people in the music business or the acting world for being stupid with money,” Ramsey said in a video posted to Facebook recently. “Only they add a level of arrogance to it because they’re so freakin smart.”
The post’s caption spelled it out even further: “Doctors are some of the smartest people out there — and some of the worst with money. I’ve seen it over and over again.”
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Lawyers and entertainers didn’t escape the critique either. “A lot of them let arrogance override common sense,” he added. “Just because you make a lot doesn’t mean you’re winning.”
Ramsey’s frustration isn’t new. In his ongoing crusade to get people to ditch debt and build wealth, he’s often pointed to his own data to back it up.
His National Study of Millionaires, which surveyed 10,000 net-worth millionaires, found that most of them didn’t work in flashy or high-paying fields. In fact, “medical doctor didn’t even make the top five,” Ramsey told comedian Theo Von in an interview last year.
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Instead, the top five professions that produced millionaires were:
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Engineers
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Accountants
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Teachers
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Managers
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Attorneys
That’s right — despite Ramsey’s jab at lawyers, they did crack the top five. Doctors didn’t.
“The hardest people to convince to use common sense are the smart people,” Ramsey said in the video. “Lawyers and doctors — the level of arrogance that comes with that — often it’s the hardest group of people I have to talk into it.”
“Don’t be too smart for your own good,” he added. “Humble yourself, learn the basics, and start making your money work for you, not against you.”
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Ramsey’s not saying doctors and lawyers aren’t smart — he’s saying they think they’re too smart for the basics. And that’s the problem. When you’re used to being top of your class, it’s easy to assume you don’t need a budget, a plan, or anyone telling you what to do with your paycheck.
