Investing the bed rock of wealth.

[Mhizlove]

Well if I may say yeah they do teach investment in schools but not as a subject, just a topic under economics or commerce. That said when we talk about the word investment, indeed there are many kinds of investment. As long as, as time goes the price of the asset continues to increase in value indeed you can call it an investment. But then the investment you are referring to is a digital asset like Bitcoin, which if I may say it's actually the best way to grow wealth depending on the person's financial understanding of the asset ...

schools don’t teach us to be investors or businessmen they teach us to be employers that’s usually what we study for or what we train for it’s rare for kids to say they dream of having their own businesses or companies

I totally agree with you here, because school system only train people majorly on how to get a job and not create any. From when I was much younger our teachers do say to us that success come with getting good Grades and not with you being employed, this makes the mentality of a kid or child not thinking of owning it's business or investing to be successful.

What's is just missing is not getting foundational teaching of how to learn skill, money  and how ideas are to be turned into value, so you see if children learn all this early then they will have the mindst of owning their own business and schools aren't suppose to produce workers only but those that can also create opportunities too.

[Bitcoin_people]

Although people think that investing is a very easy strategy, but basically if you do not have your own experience and skills, investing is not easy, rather this thing becomes difficult. It is never possible to succeed if you do not work with your own experience and skills, so you have to develop yourself properly in terms of investment. When the market is in recession, many times you have to have your own portfolio, so preventing yourself from instability and being patient is the best way. An investment takes people forward towards the future and helps them create their wealth, in which case people can change their fate by investing. So we should develop ourselves in such a way that from a young age we can learn about investment and improve our own experience and skills. And to invest, we have to manage our knowledge and implement good plans for the long term.

[slapper]

The actual foundation looks like would be earning capacity. Your ability to produce surplus income which can be then put to work into assets. Investment is step two. Maybe step three. But we continue to step over step one because it's not comfortable to admit that most people never get there.

The Buffett example is almost worthless as a model. He's an extreme outlier in every dimension we would consider, in terms of timing, talent, initial access, network effects, the regulatory environment, the whole thing. To use him as a proof that investing creates wealth, is like pointing at LeBron James as a proof that basketball creates wealth.

Technically true. Functionally misleading.

What happens if you have schools teaching investing to kids with no capital? Do we just create one more knowledge gap where rich kids learn things like estate planning while poor kids learn theory that they can't put into action?

[Somto9Light]

schools don’t teach us to be investors or businessmen they teach us to be employers that’s usually what we study for or what we train for it’s rare for kids to say they dream of having their own businesses or companies

It depend on the course you're into, if you study business management you might be thought about investment or business but if you're going for a different course like medicine and surgery or nursing this courses has absolutely nothing to do with Investment or business.

But I could remember back then when I was in secondary level I was thought about investment and how to establish a business but then, I didn't find it useful because I felt I might not be needing them but now I realized the importance.

[Zlantann]

I think the act of investing should be tough in schools and college,as this is important topic that starts the creation of wealth and the path to financial freedom.
               Take Warren Buffett for example, he's a living billionaire which gives a full proof that investing is the first path to wealth creation. Imagine investing from the age of 11 till the age of 95, that's something you don't see often and along the way he's gained more experience which helped him through the journey of wealth growth through the power of compounding of investment.
       Thought investment can create wealth but I would say, creating wealth through investing is not as easy as it seems, you have to master the act of patience, even when the market is down and your portfolio is on the negative side, the ability to hold for as long as needed to make profit. What's your take on this topic? Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

Your definition of wealth creation is important in answering your question. The definition of wealth is relative. You have given am example of a wealthy man as Warren Buffet based on your own view. I might view a wealthy man as an individual who had enough to provide all he needs to live a good life.

Investing is a good option to become financially stable, but it is not the only way. Some people are employees in big organisations and they earn enough to be financially stable. With their gratuity and pension, they can still enjoy a financially sufficient life. However, I agree with your opinion that those who have extra money to invest in a good asset or business. Keeping money in banks will lead to loss of value caused by inflation.

[Cheema02]

I think the act of investing should be tough in schools and college,as this is important topic that starts the creation of wealth and the path to financial freedom.
               Take Warren Buffett for example, he's a living billionaire which gives a full proof that investing is the first path to wealth creation. Imagine investing from the age of 11 till the age of 95, that's something you don't see often and along the way he's gained more experience which helped him through the journey of wealth growth through the power of compounding of investment.
       Thought investment can create wealth but I would say, creating wealth through investing is not as easy as it seems, you have to master the act of patience, even when the market is down and your portfolio is on the negative side, the ability to hold for as long as needed to make profit. What's your take on this topic? Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

I strongly agreed with your thoughts and its true that for a long term wealth evaluation the main thing is an investment and it must be stuided in school and colleges. The reason is that when people familiar how to earn money in smart way or how to manage it and how to invest for future then they also gain knowledge about critical concept like risk and patience. And the example of Warren Buffet is best for us because he started in his early age and remains consistent and he proves that time management and yours behavior have worth more than talent alone. On the other way if we think investing is easy than its wrong because we could be very careful about downturns in market and holding quality investment is itself a great challenge in difficult time span. So the learning point is that only with investing we doesn't create wealth if we don't disciplined and consistent

[bhadz]

I think the act of investing should be tough in schools and college,as this is important topic that starts the creation of wealth and the path to financial freedom.
What's your take on this topic? Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

I definitely approve and agree about this. The old curriculum in my country has never taught on how to invest because if it did, then I already knew it when I was in the grade school. But no, they have never included that in the lessons that they should teach to the young generations. Compared to the other countries that have a better educational system, they're already teaching the kids there about the importance of investing and saving money in the bank. This gives them the attitude that they have to be wise financially in order to have a better life.

[Fortify]

I think the act of investing should be tough in schools and college,as this is important topic that starts the creation of wealth and the path to financial freedom.
               Take Warren Buffett for example, he's a living billionaire which gives a full proof that investing is the first path to wealth creation. Imagine investing from the age of 11 till the age of 95, that's something you don't see often and along the way he's gained more experience which helped him through the journey of wealth growth through the power of compounding of investment.
       Thought investment can create wealth but I would say, creating wealth through investing is not as easy as it seems, you have to master the act of patience, even when the market is down and your portfolio is on the negative side, the ability to hold for as long as needed to make profit. What's your take on this topic? Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

It can take a long time to learn this fact and some people never do, even if they end up relying on their pension at the end of 40+ years of working, it still never clicks that their pension was basically just growing through being invested in the market. Many people are afraid and allergic to risk, so they think that saving their money in bank accounts earning 3% on average over the long term is a good idea, but your money should really be making at least 6-8% per year at relatively low risk. To get into the investing mentality you have to flip fear on it's head, you have to embrace and love when the markets drop so you can buy in for cheaper, because in the end it will head back up eventually but don't try to get rich quickly, because that often ends up in disaster.

[Spaceman1000$]

I think the act of investing should be tough in schools and college,as this is important topic that starts the creation of wealth and the path to financial freedom.
               Take Warren Buffett for example, he's a living billionaire which gives a full proof that investing is the first path to wealth creation. Imagine investing from the age of 11 till the age of 95, that's something you don't see often and along the way he's gained more experience which helped him through the journey of wealth growth through the power of compounding of investment.
       Thought investment can create wealth but I would say, creating wealth through investing is not as easy as it seems, you have to master the act of patience, even when the market is down and your portfolio is on the negative side, the ability to hold for as long as needed to make profit. What's your take on this topic? Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

I've said this thing before now, school's should not only be teaching student knowledge, they should do well to teach their students on how to create wealth, you cannot only teach them academic skills without procedures on how they can make a penny and how they can double that money. This should be for all faculties of the university, not only for management student, because they are usually the one's with entrepreneurial studies.

[Agbamoni]

Investment is taught in school. I remember back then in college, we learned a subject called "Entrepreneurship study." Then we were taught about investment, business, and being a sole proprietorship, and a lot to do with demand and supply in various industries. I could barely forget any of that. The thing is, you dont expect them to teach you the individual's business or investment to choose in life. It is something we grow up to learn when we are financially ready to make a choice. Investment and business are truly the bedrock of making wealth.

[alastantiger]

I think the act of investing should be tough in schools and college,as this is important topic that starts the creation of wealth and the path to financial freedom.
               Take Warren Buffett for example, he's a living billionaire which gives a full proof that investing is the first path to wealth creation. Imagine investing from the age of 11 till the age of 95, that's something you don't see often and along the way he's gained more experience which helped him through the journey of wealth growth through the power of compounding of investment.
       Thought investment can create wealth but I would say, creating wealth through investing is not as easy as it seems, you have to master the act of patience, even when the market is down and your portfolio is on the negative side, the ability to hold for as long as needed to make profit. What's your take on this topic? Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

Very true, wealth courses should be schools i agree but we know the school system prepares students for the workforce not really the source of the wealth. Also yes i do agree that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation, just like with Bitcoin, men of old who held properties and lands, their children are enjoying off it. Those men invested probably early and as it has reached maturity date, his generation enjoys it as per of the wealth created. I truly believe if you want generational wealth you need to invest deeply today in something that will last over time and grow in worth as well.

[Odogwu-Blockchain]

Such topics will never be taught in school, it's not found in school curriculum and course outline, you can only be taught economics and not the application into the everyday life.

If you want to be exempted from other students, then you redirect yourself into buying books about these wealthy gurus and start learning from there, bit by bit, and then suddenly you can start developing the idea and start doing like they did.

Besides, these guys has rich parents who instructed them and guided them thoroughly, it plays the major role in their life, how can an 11 year old boy knows what compounding is and where does he get the money from, his parents less the way while he follows and never departed from it till he gets older. That's my take

[Kelvinid]

There are already core subjects in schools and universities that include investing as part of it, so I believe students have already been aware about the benefits of investing.

But let's be realistic, investing is never that easy and success is never a one night process. It takes years of being knowledgeable, patient, resilient and most of all, staying positivity at all times, even in the event of losing.

In the end, consistency do matters the most, because when there's no consistency in everything that you have build up from the beginning, you will achieve nothing but regrets in the future.

[Floczy]

To become successful in life, you need to sacrifice, be patient, stay focused, be consistent in whatever you are doing and have positive goal so that you wouldn't give up on your goal no matter the challenges you will face. Wealth isn't acquired in a day but over a long period of time. Look at Warren Buffet, he didn't give up and became successful at the right time.

Bitcoin investment is the same and for those that are not rich enough to set up other investments, you can learn from Warren Buffet that patient and long-term bitcoin accumulation pays off than being in a rush to take profit. Nobody will teach you how to make money in school if not your teachers will be rich business people if they know how to become wealthy.

I envy your words. These words are coming from personal experience and maturity.
Yes, it is true sacrifice must be made, along with discipline and consistency like your rightly said. Wealth don't come randomly, even if luck is involved the probability of that happening with luck is not more than 4%.

The problem with many people is that they want to get rich faster. They don't care about laying the right foundation for the wealth to sit on. Only wealth built on a solid foundation can stand the test of time. Because challenges will always come, competition will always come so it is the knowledge we have gain over the years that will help us scale through.

[Rruchi man]

Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

Investing helps in the accumulation of wealth, but also investing can be the end of a man who is seeking to be wealthy. The reason I say so is because there are many wrong forms of investment, ventures that would swallow up your capital and yield no profits. As someone who is on a hunt for profits to be able to accumulate into wealth, you have to do your research properly on any venture you want to invest in, even if it's cryptocurrency before trying to invest there because that is the best way you're going to profit properly from it.

[tygeade]

This is true, every rich person has invest into something. Either could be their own business, could be someone else's, but you have to invest. Jeff Bezos has a great defensive sentence he keeps saying whenever someone talks about his wealth, while he is wrong about the wealth because it is not "him" being rich that bothers people, tis the fact that a company can be trillions in profit and still pay so little taxes, while smaller people pay a lot more.

But leaving that aside, what he says is that, Amazon created 1+ trillion dollars for others, that he does not own, others own that part, so investment made 1+ trillion dollars total to people, not same people, many bought and sold, but total it created that much wealth.

[Bluedrem]

Not everyone is Warren Buffett and not everyone has the same luck. A person can achieve success in investing only when he is able to maintain his investment in extreme conditions. Most people fail in investing mainly because they are unable to maintain their investment in extreme conditions. Also, many are not aware of the investment methods. To invest, experience is definitely needed. A person cannot be a successful investor just by having money, to be a successful investor, it is necessary to know about the investment methods.

[cxtreenal]

I think the act of investing should be tough in schools and college,as this is important topic that starts the creation of wealth and the path to financial freedom.
               Take Warren Buffett for example, he's a living billionaire which gives a full proof that investing is the first path to wealth creation. Imagine investing from the age of 11 till the age of 95, that's something you don't see often and along the way he's gained more experience which helped him through the journey of wealth growth through the power of compounding of investment.
       Thought investment can create wealth but I would say, creating wealth through investing is not as easy as it seems, you have to master the act of patience, even when the market is down and your portfolio is on the negative side, the ability to hold for as long as needed to make profit. What's your take on this topic? Do you agree with the fact that investing is the bedrock of wealth creation?

I probably understand what you want to know about investment. Investment is a concept that you plan before investing capital and having expertise in that investment is a prerequisite. If you are not experienced in investment, you will not be able to make the right decision and investment decisions will never be successful if influenced by others.

It is more important to have an investment plan and also have funds and to be patient. To gain wealth from investment, you have to spend a period for the apprenticeship period. Secondly, you have to have a tolerant financial system to lose during this period. It is important to have the ability to lose money and have risk management.

Especially when investing in crypto, select the best coin and have risk management and accumulation small amounts during the apprenticeship period. To profit from investment, keep accumulation for a certain period of time for the holding to mature. Do not wait for the price to increase but continue accumulation coins for a certain period of time regardless of the price. Maybe that period could be 4 to 10 years.

[SUPERSAIAN]

A fortune can be built through investments made over the years. You build what you dedicate yourself to for years. The same applies to finance. If you have a good job and have money left over to save, and you invest that money wisely, it will turn into a fortune over the years. I believe this isn't something that needs to be taught in universities people need to realize this themselves.

[GiftedMAN]

A fortune can be built through investments made over the years. You build what you dedicate yourself to for years. The same applies to finance. If you have a good job and have money left over to save, and you invest that money wisely, it will turn into a fortune over the years. I believe this isn't something that needs to be taught in universities people need to realize this themselves.

The problem is that most people lack patience to wait for the long term. Patience they say is a virtue and not everyone has this, that’s why not so many people are able to wait through that long period of time. And it’s always impossible for anyone without patience, self control and discipline to succeed in investment, especially long term investments.