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Quotes from Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following — Vicki Robin

born 1945 United States

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Things that should happen because of justice and environmental sustainability, but will also benefit the FIRE people in the FIRE movement.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

A lot of people are stuck for their entire lives in jobs that do not agree with their souls because of college debt.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

I never saw it as a book that’s about giving up things.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

Nobility is one thing, but to die of frugality is another.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

Absent any social or political critique. But “Your Money or Your Life” was never supposed to be just a self-help guide to saving your own financial life.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

There’s a lot of blather about meaningful work and purpose in life. It’s dangled out as a carrot, and I don’t know how many people actually get to do that.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. It is the key to your next enslavement.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

I was selling outsmarting a system that’s trying to outsmart you.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

We need to look as a society at the system that says to succeed you need a college education, but you have to sell your future to get it.

Opinion Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vicki Robin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.