After graduating from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1967, he served two and a half years as a naval officer.
They discovered that the Bible contained 2,350 verses dealing with money and possessions, and Dayton's life profoundly changed.
God gave him a passion to share the principles he discovered, leading him to write eight books and six small-group studies, which have been translated into dozens of languages.
During Dayton's tenure as CEO, the ministry taught Bible-based principles of handling money and operating a business to more than 50 million people in 88 countries.
In 2011, Dayton joined Steve Moore again to start a new nationally syndicated call-in radio program, MoneyWise.