Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin (born July 6, 1945) 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.

Quotes

• I call money “national wealth” and this other “natural wealth.”
  • This Kind of Wealth Really Can Solve Our Problems Yesǃ Magazine (November 13, 2018)

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

"Opinion  Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following" The Washington post (October 4, 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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