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betting on a future you'll never fully see, with money you'd rather not lose
means The act of committing money, time, or effort to something now in the hope it will grow or pay off later.
from From Latin 'investire,' meaning 'to clothe' or 'to dress' (from 'in-' plus 'vestis,' a garment — the same root that gives us 'vest' and 'vestments'). The financial sense grew from the idea of clothing your money in a new form: you wrap your capital in a venture, a stock, a property, the way you'd robe a body in fabric. The military 'investment' of a besieged city — surrounding it — comes from the same clothing image, the fortress wrapped tight by an army.
- compound interest
- Einstein allegedly called it the eighth wonder of the world
- time beats timing
- days in the market crush timing the market
- fear sells
- most investors buy high and panic-sell low
- index quietly wins
- most active funds lose to a boring index
- oldest trade
- Mesopotamians financed sea voyages 4,000 years ago
berkshire hathaway — warren buffett's company returned 1,460,000% to shareholders from 1965-2023
tesla stock — rose from $17 in 2010 to over $250 by 2021, a 1,400% gain
apple ipo 1980 — $22 initial price became $150+ by 2020, creating thousands of millionaires
bitcoin — $0.003 in 2010 to $60,000+ in 2021, a 2,000,000,000% return