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Financial Independence. The crossover point.
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Financial Independence
The crossover point
The point where investments cover living costs, so work becomes a choice.
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Financial independence is the point where income from your investments covers your expenses. After that, work becomes a choice, not a requirement. The variable is not how much you earn. It is the gap between what you earn and what you spend. A wider gap reaches the crossover point faster.
- The rule of thumb: save 25 times your annual expenses. The returns on that amount can cover your costs indefinitely.
- Starting early matters more than earning more. Time and compound interest do the work. (See Card 0006.)
SourceVicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life (1992)
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