This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Dave Ramsey: What happens to people who NEVER give?" featuring a conversation between Lewis Howes and Dave Ramsey. The discussion, recorded on August 18, 2025, explores the impact of generosity on personal growth, relationships, and integrity, with insights into how giving influences various aspects of life, including marriage and parenting.
What do you think happens to people that never give? That they just earn for themselves, or they keep it in their business and they only put it back in their business, but they don't think about giving.
Outside of the business. I think their growth is stunted, really. But you know it, to me, again, it falls in the same category as integrity. What happens to someone who cuts corners? You can. You can win, you can prosper to a degree. But all the data tells us and all the life experience tells us that the people with fanatical levels of integrity are the ones that do the biggest stuff. The crooks really don't get ahead. At the end of the day, the people that are selfish, they could get some stuff done. But the people that are selfless, they just have a tendency because people trust them. That trust factor comes in, things move at the speed of trust, as they say, and all those things come into play, and you just don't become all you were designed to be. The other thing that happens with generosity is your creativity increases because you're releasing chemicals that you don't release when you're selfish. Your productivity increases, the quality of your relationships increase. I was speaking at a little Baptist church in Kentucky one time, beautiful little church, and the guy, many, many years ago, and the old pastor had been there for 40 years, and I did a tithing lesson, hardcore Baptist tithing lesson, which I love. And the guy came up afterwards and he goes, well, you left one thing out. Sure, Pastor. I mean, you've been doing this longer than me. What did I leave out? He goes, you know, I've been doing this 40 years. I've never had a tithing couple in my church get a divorce. And I went, why? Because the tithe is magical. Because some people think that in Christianity, you know, because I don't think that he said no, because when you're unselfish with your money, you're unselfish with your wife, and you're unselfish with your husband, and you serve each other in the marriage. If you're serving the community with your giving, it's the same muscle. And he goes, you're just easier to.
Stay married to when you're tithing. When you're giving, when you're giving, when.
You make giving a standard part of the rhythm of your life, you build that generosity muscle. And. And it affects every relationship you're in, particularly the key relationship in marriage, it changes the way you parent, you know.
Because if you don't give in one area, if you're saying, I'm going to hold back my money, and I'm going to keep it here. You're probably not going to give generously to your spouse or to your kids or to your friends or community, right?
