Vicki Robin

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Biography

Vicki Robin is an American writer and speaker. She is best known as the author of Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence.

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

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"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."

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"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."

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

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

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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."

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"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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"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."

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

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

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"We no longer live life. We consume it."

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"The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition."

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