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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.

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

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I call money “national wealth” and this other “natural wealth.”

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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.

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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.

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