"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."