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📈 5 investing lessons most people learn 20 years too late.👇

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Lesson 5: Starting early beats starting big.

Same $300 a month, same returns. Starting at 25 instead of 35 more than doubles the end result.

Time does most of the heavy lifting.

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📈 5 investing lessons most people learn 20 years too late.👇

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Lesson 4: Keep it simple.

Terry Smith sums up his whole strategy in three rules:

Buy good companies
Don’t overpay
Do nothing
The last one is the hardest.

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“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.” - Charlie Munger

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220 Years of US interest rates in one chart:

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Percentage gains needed to fully recover from a loss:

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“Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.” - Jason Zweig

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“Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn’t.” - Seth Klarman

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9 Mental Models Every Business Owner Needs

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“Insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: They think the price will rise.” - Peter Lynch

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Daily, the S&P 500 is a coin flip. Over 20 years, it has never lost.

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The best margin of safety over the long run isn’t the price you pay. It’s a durable competitive advantage that lasts for decades. That’s what quality investing is all about.

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💡Costco’s entire business model in one paragraph, by Nick Sleep:

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“You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.” - Warren Buffett

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The best states for work-life balance

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What if you bought every time CNBC panicked?

S&P 500 one year after every “Markets in Turmoil” special (2010–2022). Positive every single time.

Only covers a long bull market, but the lesson holds: scary headlines are rarely a great time to sell.

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“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” - Benjamin Graham