要钱还是要生活 – Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin

如果你现在手上有一个亿，那你还会不会继续工作？

如果你说“会”，说明你正在做着自己喜欢的事。

如果你说“不会”，说明你对这份工作早已厌倦。

我们在财务困境中挣扎的主要原因是：在学校里学习多年，却没有学到任何关于金钱方面的知识。其结果是，我们只知道为金钱而工作，但从来不学着让金钱为我们工作。

本书初版发行于1992年，作者在书中向读者发出了灵魂拷问：你是要钱还是要生活？我们拼命工作，换来了我们真正想要的吗？人生中无比重要的40年，在工作和加班中度过，这样的生活质量能好吗？

这本书并不是一本理财书，因为它的出版，引发了如火如荼的FIRE（财务自由，提前退休）运动，近年来在中国也掀起热潮。很多人开始践行书中的理论，根据书中提出的九个步骤，理清工作、财务与生活的关系。

收入不等于财富，从现在开始，反思你的消费观，学习使用结算表，让积累成为一种习惯，迅速攒够一年生活费的25倍，每年靠4%的理财收益，就能实现35岁前退休的愿望。让自己多掌握20年的生命，不再被压力巨大的工作束缚，摆脱职场和金钱的奴役，以自己热爱的方式去享受生活，去做真正喜欢的事情，重新找回自我。

“The best book on money. Period.” (Grant Sabatier, founder of Millennial Money, on CNBC Make It)

“This is a wonderful book. It can really change your life.” (Oprah)

For more than 25 years, Your Money or Your Life has been considered the go-to book for taking back your life by changing your relationship with money. Hundreds of thousands of people have followed this nine-step program, learning to live more deliberately and meaningfully with Vicki Robin’s guidance.

This fully revised and updated edition with a foreword by “the Frugal Guru” (The New Yorker) Mr. Money Mustache is the ultimate makeover of this best-selling classic, ensuring that its time-tested wisdom applies to people of all ages and covers modern topics like investing in index funds, managing revenue streams like side hustles and freelancing, tracking your finances online, and having difficult conversations about money.

Whether you’re just beginning your financial life or heading towards retirement, this book will tell you how to:

• Get out of debt and develop savings
• Save money through mindfulness and good habits, rather than strict budgeting
• Declutter your life and live well for less
• Invest your savings and begin creating wealth
• Save the planet while saving money
• And so much more!