What I Learned from Investing?
3 May 2025 • last edit — 4 August 2025
- Money makes money. 1% of $2000 is not exciting whereas 1% of $200000 - is. Before trying to make money while you sleep, try making it while you are awake.
- You are ALWAYS investing. Even if you don’t invest - this means you’ve invested in the currency in which you hold all your cash in. Which means you’re ALWAYS taking a risk, whether you are doing it consciously or not.
- The safest investment is acquiring skills and improving yourself.
- If you invest money - be prepared to lose it. Don’t put money in whatever asset, if losing that money is going to change your life substantially.
- If you want someone to pay you back with interest, you have to wait for that someone to create VALUE with YOUR money because YOU COULDN’T CREATE VALUE YOURSELF. This process takes time. When you give money to a business, don’t expect you can take it back at any given moment. Money won’t multiply itself by sitting on the table.
- If you invest in the S&P 500, you are investing in the US. You are helping THEIR economy and THEIR people (unless the US is your country). That’s cool and all, however this means that you are taking money out of your country and putting it in another one.
- If you learned about it from your barber or grandma - it’s probably a bubble.
- If it’s too good to be true - it probably is.
- Do the opposite of what others are doing. When others are zigging you have to be zagging and vice versa. Sell when it’s high and buy when it’s low.
- If you are being rushed to take a decision - someone is probably trying to scam you.
- Keep quiet about what you do.
- At the end of the day, investing in a business means that YOU give YOUR money to another entity so that entity can improve itself. This kind of implies that you don’t know how to invest your money in yourself.