Pro Friendship Tip:
If you have a friend starting up a business, look for ways to support. If your friend opens a pizza shop, your first thought should be to take your friends to all buy some pizza, not to ask for free meals.
The Super Rich
"More super-rich people means the regular old rich people don’t feel nearly as special. This is how you get rich people who consider themselves middle class."
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by @awealthofcs
Start of 2025: ‘Why should I own anything outside of the US?’
14 months later: South Korea +204%, Peru +143%, South Africa +108% … S&P 500 +18%.
The future is unknown. That’s why you diversify.
The longer you play in a casino, the greater the odds you lose. The longer you own a diversified portfolio of stocks, the greater the odds you win. The only similarity between investing and a casino is that if you do it right, you’re the house.
The market is going to have a negative return about 1 in every 4 years.
You can expect a drop of over 10% nearly every year.
You can expect a drop of over 20% about every 5 years.
Successful investors know this. If you can't accept it, the stock market isn't for you.
Wealth isn’t about buying more stuff.
It’s about buying more freedom.
Freedom to retire.
Freedom to help family.
Freedom to say no.
Freedom to do what’s most meaningful to you.
Bull markets have lasted 5x longer than bear markets on average.
Bulls: +254% over 5 years 🐂
Bears: –31% over 1 year 🐻
Markets spend far more time growing wealth than destroying it. Why interrupting compounding is the biggest risk of all.
Video: https://t.co/LsAWVOA05y
To my younger followers, please don’t listen to the idiots on X that say education doesn’t matter. It’s not the only path, but nothing helps your odds of success more.