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“Becoming financially independent actually facilitates you towards doing what you love. If you try to rely on a job and it’s this essential part of your identity, and that job goes away, what do you do? If you become financially independent, you have what I call 'FI armor': If you lose the job, that is perfectly fine. You can freelance, work for free, volunteer doing what you love. The fact is that we can’t rely on our employers and we have to rely on ourselves: That is the new future.”

“It comes down to the 4 percent rule: You can safely withdraw 4 percent out of your accumulated money each year, if it’s invested through index funds, and have that money last for the rest of your life. To figure out your 'FI number', or how much money you need to accumulate before you can achieve financial independence, use the 4 percent rule of thumb: You take your yearly expenses then multiply by 25. My yearly expense is $40,000. That means my FI number is 40,000 x 25 = $1 million.”

“Learning to invest and get into the market, through index investing, as quickly as possible.”

“Pick the right industry. There can be a real danger to following your passion right away. My passion was creative writing, but I went into computer engineering.”

“The biggest three categories that you need to nail down are housing, transportation and food. Once those three are in a good spot, optimized and cut down as much as possible, making a splurge of regular lattes or avocado toast,... none of those things will really make any difference in terms of slowing you down towards retirement. So just drink the coffee, it’s totally going to be fine.”

“The first year my partner and I retired, our friends were like, ‘Ha-ha, that’s adorable. We’ll see you in a year'. By the third year everyone was like, ‘Can you come look at our finances?’”

“The media likes to make fun of millennials, saying we are all are entitled, complaining about not having job stability, not being able to afford a house. But in reality, all the rules our boomer parents followed, the status quo of, “Go get a job ‘till your 65, get a pension, buy a house” those rules don’t apply anymore. Houses might have cost our parents two or three times their annual salary. Now in major metropolitan areas, houses are often 10 times the average salary or even more. And there is no longer such a thing as a golden pension.”

“The thing is that the stock market always goes up. If every single company on the S&P 500 goes bankrupt, we’re basically in the Hunger Games. Time to buy some shotguns. The aliens have attacked, and we’re all screwed anyway.”

“The time it takes to reach FI depends on your savings rate and not your salary. If you save 50 to 60 percent of your salary, you are only 12 to 16 years from retirement. But if you save only 10 percent, you are 46 years from FI. The more you save, the faster you get to FI.”

“There aren’t that many plumbers out there, and everyone needs them. So if everyone is going off to get English degrees but no one knows how to fix a sink, then maybe it does make sense to be a plumber. Don’t be so enamored with the idea of getting a degree. Getting a degree doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to get a prestigious job.”

“Women have a timeline, men don’t. But women who decide to have kids probably just have to take a bit longer before becoming FI. Within the FIRE community, there are people who have been able to do it with kids. You definitely have to be practical about it.”

“You shouldn’t necessarily just go for the jobs that pay well. Take a doctor, for example: Yeah, you get paid a lot, but you’re in school for 10 years and come out with so much debt.”

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“According to business and economics professor Paul Harvey, a great source of frustration for people with a strong sense of entitlement is unmet expectations. If you believe that you’re special, and all you have to do is find your singular passion and turn it into a perfect job, that’s a recipe for disaster. The reality is that the world owes you nothing. You only become 'special' by developing skills that are in demand, which takes focus, grit, and long-term work.”

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“Americans throw away eleven million tons of clothing a year.”

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“Chinese citizens have an average savings rate of 38 percent. That is massive compared to the American rate of 3.9 percent and the Japanese rate of just 2.8 percent.”

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“If you ever want to see a banker sweat, try this: walk into your bank, ask to see a salesperson, and ask to put your savings into index funds. It’s the funniest thing ever.”

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“If you were to stop working, your employment income would drop to $0. And if you were to structure your portfolio such that it earned money as dividends and capital gains, you could end up never paying taxes again.”

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“In China, Coca-Cola is called Kekou Kele, which means 'Tasty Fun'.”

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“It's really very simple. Index investing beats 85 percent of actively managed mutual funds.”

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“One of the biggest lies we've been sold is that following our passion is the key. Statistically, following your passion will lead to unemployment or underemployment.”

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“One psychology study at Harvard and UVA found that nearly all nineteen thousand participants reported that their passions had changed significantly over the previous ten years.”

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“Pleasure isn’t based on an absolute level of dopamine in the brain, but rather on the relative level versus the expected level of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. Relative, not absolute.”

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“Poor people buy stuff. The middle class buys houses. Rich people buy investments.”

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“Property is the worst, since you’re taxed every year whether your house goes up or down in value. Employment income and interest are slightly better, because they’re taxed only when you make money. Qualified dividends and capital gains are the best.”

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“Property tax is a wealth tax that they can’t get around. That’s why rich people tend not to hold a lot of their net worth in their primary residence, whereas middle-class people often do (one reason why it’s hard to break out and become rich).”

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“Shopping is the easiest and fastest way to get a hit of dopamine, the pleasure hormone. Since this is the same chemical that’s released when we eat tasty things, have sex, do drugs, or accomplish something we’re proud of. I was hooked.”

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“The idea of relying on the government is laughable. The government's job isn't to help you! Their job is to find new and creative ways of making your life immeasurably worse.”

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“The more stuff people owned, the unhappier and more stressed they tended to be. Conversely, the less stuff people owned and the more they spent on experiences like travel or learning new skills, the happier and more content they were.”

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“There are parts of every passion that, when turned into a full-time job, suck. I love writing, but that doesn’t mean I love rewriting chapters over and over again, or getting rejection letters from agents, or poring over the dense legalese of a publishing contract until my eyes bleed.”

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“Whenever someone did you a favor or lent you something, you were expected to repay them, either through political favors or with money. Over time, it became ingrained in the national psyche that being in debt to someone gives them power over you.”

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“The question you need to answer is what you want to do with your life given that you don't have the time to do everything? Do you want to spend most of your life paying off the interest of a 30-year mortgage and working so you can fill increasingly bigger houses with increasingly more stuff while being stuck in your daily commute in increasingly nicer cars? Or are you prepared to give up the stuff so that you can do whatever you want, whenever, and wherever, within reason? What will your legacy be--what you owned or who you were?”


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