The single most crucial thing you can do to ensure your financial future is investing — and the sooner you start, the easier it is to get rich.
This isn’t BS. There’s more than 100 years of evidence in the stock market that suggests this.
Still don’t believe me? Let’s look at a real world example of how to become rich by investing.
Say you’re 25 years old and you decide to invest $500/month in a low-cost, diversified index fund. If you do that until you’re 60, how much money do you think you’d have?
Take a look:
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$1,116,612.89
That’s right. You’d be a millionaire after only investing a few thousand dollars per year.
Notice, I’m not talking about the Hollywood type of investing where hot-shot stockbrokers make huge multi-million dollar trades while yelling “SELL” into a phone for some reason.
