What You Need to Know About Investing to Become Wealthy

Some people spend their whole life living paycheck to paycheck. I know because they send me really sad emails about it. And now they’re in their 50s or 60s and realize they’ll have to work until they’re so old and sick that they just can’t work anymore. This is a shitty life so I want something better for you.

I just read The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco. He talks about two ways to build wealth: The slow lane, and the fast lane. The slow lane is filled with all the people who save and invest....

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How Unicorns Helped Me Beat the Market

My family bought our first computer in the early 90s. I just played games on it because the internet didn’t really exist yet. It was around this time Marc Andreessen was coding the first Web browser which became Netscape Navigator. Then the internet took off and Microsoft released Internet Explorer to compete against Navigator.

Microsoft eventually won, and Andreessen left to form a venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley. With his buddy Ben Horowitz they started investing in startups. Because...

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Interview with Tom Engle: Investing Legend

You might not have heard of Tom Engle. He was born poor in Louisville, Kentucky, where his family shared a two-bedroom house with his grandparents.

He watched his parents quickly climb out of poverty by investing, and learned at a young age to invest what money he could, and most importantly, to keep it invested. This mindset changed his life forever – after working just nine years at a gas station he was able to retire.

Tom’s now been an investor for over 40 years, and a legend in the Motley Fool Stock Advisor investment community. By...

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Free Gift! Lazy and Uncomplicated Investing

I saw a cartoon in a recent New Yorker where a guru on top of a mountain tells a dog, “The bone is not the reward—digging for the bone is the reward.”

When I was trying to get a full ride to college because we were poor, that was the bone I was digging for. So eventually, I graduated from college with $4,500 in debt.

When I was trying to overcome anxiety and unhealthy behaviors from growing up in a dysfunctional home, I focused...

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Warren Buffett’s Free Investing Advice for YOU

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” –Warren Buffett

That quote is simply amazing because it highlights how ass backwards Wall Street actually is. Buffett is one smart dude, and as an investor it’s those bits of wisdom I always look forward to in the annual letter he pens to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

The good news is that even if...

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