The long perseverance of early investment

[Cryptomultiplier]

‎It is my intention to drive home the point of how the long perseverance of an early investment pays off in the long term, with a story streamlined to how I bought a new raincoat to replace the old one I bought cheaper back then because the rainy season would definitely and always come.
‎ I was right to have invested in a new raincoat although it was rather expensive at this time I bought it, but I didn't mind the cost, because right now while the rain falls heavy without notice, I am not limited to the rainfall and can go out or take a stroll to wherever I want undeterred.
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‎The first investment Lesson: While many people would opt for the cheap or short-term fixes because of the immediate low cost, these cheap assets are doomed to degrade when exposed to harsher natural elements. Thus, a true investment is on that requires an investor to look past the immediate price tag to see the structural integrity of what they are buying into.
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‎The second investment Lesson is that we must acknowledge that the markets, the economies, and life itself operate in cycles. While there are seasons of abundance and sunshine, there are also the seasons of harsh downturns or volatility or in the case of my analogy, the heavy rainfall. Therefore, the worst time to look for the best price is when the storm is already overhead, when prices are inflated, and when panic is the order of the day. 
‎To persevere through an early investment, when others might not see the immediate need, ensure that you are insulated before the cycle shifts.
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‎The third investment lesson is that  long-term perseverance is a robust asset in itself that helps grant you financial sovereignty. Thus, when a market storm hits or a personal financial rainy season arrives, the person who was bold to have invested early isn't trapped or limited. While those potential investors who are unprepared are forced to freeze their plans or liquidate their assets in a state of panic, the investor who was prepared has the freedom to move, explore new opportunities, and navigate the storm completely dry.
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‎In essence, the true cost of any potential worthwhile investment cannot be measured by the initial price paid at the onset, but by the level of freedom it provides when the environment turns hostile. I indeed paid more for my raincoat than most would deem necessary during the dry season, but today, as the downpour traps the crowd under the heavy downpour, I am walking undeterred.
‎This is what an early investment buys you: it doesn’t stop the rain from falling, but it ensures the rain can never limit your steps.
‎The fact remains that preparation is quite  expensive, but regret is far more costlier.
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‎Your opinion is welcomed!
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[Fortify]

People don't necessarily buy cheap things because they want to do it, or don't see the value in the more expensive option, they do it out of necessity - they have no choice. If you're living a subsistence lifestyle and barely making the rent with very little to eat, then dropping $250 on a raincoat that lasts twenty years is out of reach when you need to protect yourself from the rain today and only have $20 available to buy a coat - even if it only lasts a year. It's all good preaching about what people should do and those of us lucky enough to earn more with additional disposable income, should be making those wiser choices, it is simply not a reality for a majority of the population in the world. On your investment point, that again is a luxury but those lucky enough to earn more will understand the power of compounding (over years) if you put your money into the right assets.

[Davidvictorson]

An important lesson that the OP may have failed to highlight is that, it is not about early investment only but choosing an early investment with the right and solid business principles backing it. Buying early is not the main thing there have been many investors who bought early and still got nothing out of it at the end of the day. We hardly hear about these stories because they are not that glamorous to the ears but this is the reality. Think about the other bitcoin projects that come out after bitcoin where are they now and those who invested in them lost, so it is not about the timing and pricing per se but investing in something with a strong principle.

[EL MOHA]

An important lesson that the OP may have failed to highlight is that, it is not about early investment only but choosing an early investment with the right and solid business principles backing it. Buying early is not the main thing there have been many investors who bought early and still got nothing out of it at the end of the day. We hardly hear about these stories because they are not that glamorous to the ears but this is the reality. Think about the other bitcoin projects that come out after bitcoin where are they now and those who invested in them lost, so it is not about the timing and pricing per se but investing in something with a strong principle.

I 100% agree with this your point, what we get to see today is simply Those that bought early and held for long and when they move their coins now which we all know are big now we actually get wowed but no one hears about those who still invest early but didn’t get anything this is because the world only appreciate winners and do not celebrate losers. It’s not always about timing even though I agree that timing usually gives you advantage than than those who will later come but the major thing is making the right choices of investment this is what separates the profitable ones from the losers.

[Stepstowealth]

‎The second investment Lesson is that we must acknowledge that the markets, the economies, and life itself operate in cycles. While there are seasons of abundance and sunshine, there are also the seasons of harsh downturns or volatility or in the case of my analogy, the heavy rainfall. Therefore, the worst time to look for the best price is when the storm is already overhead, when prices are inflated, and when panic is the order of the day. 
‎To persevere through an early investment, when others might not see the immediate need, ensure that you are insulated before the cycle shifts.

The insulation you may just need may just be a shift in your mentality and capacity to be able to react to the situation and not to respond out of fear as many people would do as the season becomes unfavorable.
People who have committed to investing in bitcoin for a very long time have to develop a strong mentality for the down seasons not to respond or react out of fear and also in the up seasons not to respond or react out of excitement.

[programmer3666]

A good investment normally looks expensive or unnecessary at the beginning, but its value becomes obvious later. Imagine the case of Bitcoin. Many people thought buying Bitcoin at $15,000 to $20,000 during the bear market was too risky, but those who were patient and held through the tough period were rewarded when the price recovered strongly. The same thing happens in everyday life. People who bought land in developing areas years ago at cheap prices are now seeing huge appreciation as those areas become more developed. Successful investing is not always about buying what is popular today, but about having the patience and vision to prepare for tomorrow as well.

[Cryptohygenic]

‎It is my intention to drive home the point of how the long perseverance of an early investment pays off in the long term, with a story streamlined to how I bought a new raincoat to replace the old one I bought cheaper back then because the rainy season would definitely and always come.
‎ I was right to have invested in a new raincoat although it was rather expensive at this time I bought it, but I didn't mind the cost, because right now while the rain falls heavy without notice, I am not limited to the rainfall and can go out or take a stroll to wherever I want undeterred.
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To tell you how far I have filtered and found this script valuable, it is not just like a story but an adage which draws a conclusion about the beneficial advantages of being prepared early.
The essence of of buying the raincoat on time at the summer before the rainy season is not just how got the material ready to be used on time but also on the fact you will buy it "cheap" because at the summer season you bought it will be very cheap because demand will be very low and majority of people won't even think of its relevant at that summer time.
So during the rainy season when it will be found useful, demands become high and so on the price increases too.
The early stage preparation is beneficial for you either as a retailer or consumer.

[Dreadboost]

An important lesson that the OP may have failed to highlight is that, it is not about early investment only but choosing an early investment with the right and solid business principles backing it. Buying early is not the main thing there have been many investors who bought early and still got nothing out of it at the end of the day. We hardly hear about these stories because they are not that glamorous to the ears but this is the reality. Think about the other bitcoin projects that come out after bitcoin where are they now and those who invested in them lost, so it is not about the timing and pricing per se but investing in something with a strong principle.

You are right. Sometimes those who first came into the business or investment don't end up being the ones that are successful in it. It will be those who studied, learn and see ways to improve what the initial person has done. Investment can be very tricky because for an investment to be successful, the process and approach have to be right. The difficult part is how the investors will know what to do, and at the right time.

Also, the failed projects which you highlighted earlier failed because of some few errors. They could have been successful if only they had taken the time to know the best way to go about it, instead of rushing it.

[Zigabel]

One point we may not have highlighted here is CAPITAL.
You may get your timing right, get all the intelligence and have the right and best decisions to make but if you don't have the capital or enough capital, you will be so limited with the much you can do or achieve.

Even when you get the timing right, your profit margin will not be as good as that of those who's got the capital capacity to go beyond the regular investment patterns, people who got what it takes for the extra, will always be ahead with the extra. Your capital will always give you the edge timing may not give you, you will shorten timing or make best use of time when you have the capital strength to navigate it, patience or better put, long term patience will not be the mantra to get you obtaining success when you have that capacity for the better start.

I am not invalidating other aspects of consideration, but I am only spelling out what capacity with capital can do that you will have to bother less on other factors, sometimes you may not need stay too long before you start making tangible profit due to the capital invested.  But the disadvantage is in the hit, when it goes against you, the hit is always as massive as when you were making profits in like sequence. When investing, make sure to me timely, have good capital and be properly educated on how it works.

[WatChe]

An important lesson that the OP may have failed to highlight is that, it is not about early investment only but choosing an early investment with the right and solid business principles backing it. Buying early is not the main thing there have been many investors who bought early and still got nothing out of it at the end of the day. We hardly hear about these stories because they are not that glamorous to the ears but this is the reality. Think about the other bitcoin projects that come out after bitcoin where are they now and those who invested in them lost, so it is not about the timing and pricing per se but investing in something with a strong principle.

Choosing the right project is very important in every investment whether its real estate, stock, crypt or any other market. There are countless token in crypto world and only handful of them have given good return to their investors. If you blindly invest in new crypto project thinking that being early investor you will get same return like Bitcoin has given to its early investors then you are deemed to get loss. If you figure out the right project even at later stage then investing in that project is still a good option.

[Jaweria parveen]

Choosing the right project is very important in every investment whether its real estate, stock, crypt or any other market. There are countless token in crypto world and only handful of them have given good return to their investors. If you blindly invest in new crypto project thinking that being early investor you will get same return like Bitcoin has given to its early investors then you are deemed to get loss. If you figure out the right project even at later stage then investing in that project is still a good option.

We will find a lot of business and investment work around the world, but it is difficult for us to find good, long-term and reliable work, and even those who have found it, people join it to cheat, while that work is okay for us. Currently, there are quite good and long-term real estate in the stock market, but there is also some fraud and the same is true in crypto. People now mostly like to work with decentralized or etherium, BNB, Sol because they do not cheat and they also give more profit at higher prices. Apart from this, there are other good investment jobs, but the way their quality is made, you will have to try it by investing money, which is a difficult thing.

[Die_empty]

Your opinion is welcomed!

Let me relate the first lesson to Bitcoin and altcoins. Those who think Bitcoin is expensive end up buying altcoins because it's cheap. Some of them end up regretting it because they lost their investment to scammers or pump and dump crypto scams.

Using the Bitcoin market, the bear season is the best time to buy. Novices in the crypto space target short-term gains so they buy Bitcoin during the bull market. Meanwhile, they don't know that it is safer and more profitable to buy during the bear market.

Regarding the third lesson's my take is that knowledge and planning are essential. Those who understand the Bitcoin market will plan on how to take advantage of the opportunities it offers. They will not be moved by FUD.

[bhadz]

‎This is what an early investment buys you: it doesn’t stop the rain from falling, but it ensures the rain can never limit your steps.
‎The fact remains that preparation is quite  expensive, but regret is far more costlier.

It's about the protection that we can have in the future and that's what investing early means. If there are insurances that we can avail, there are also investments that we can have. We're preparing for something that we don't know what will happen but at least we have an idea on how to protect ourselves from absorbing the impact or damage that it can do to us. So, the wise people invests to their future through several assets like bitcoin, real estate, index funds, s&p 500, etc. Because even if we don't know what can happen in the future, we know that through it we'll have some sort of protection through inflation.

[Cookdata]

An important lesson that the OP may have failed to highlight is that, it is not about early investment only but choosing an early investment with the right and solid business principles backing it. Buying early is not the main thing there have been many investors who bought early and still got nothing out of it at the end of the day. We hardly hear about these stories because they are not that glamorous to the ears but this is the reality. Think about the other bitcoin projects that come out after bitcoin where are they now and those who invested in them lost, so it is not about the timing and pricing per se but investing in something with a strong principle.

Choosing the right project is very important in every investment whether its real estate, stock, crypt or any other market. There are countless token in crypto world and only handful of them have given good return to their investors. If you blindly invest in new crypto project thinking that being early investor you will get same return like Bitcoin has given to its early investors then you are deemed to get loss. If you figure out the right project even at later stage then investing in that project is still a good option.

I was just going through Humanity token that crashed yesterday, there is one wallet that bought $4.5m worth it and now it's down by -$3m, I can only imagine the kind of plan he had or he was chasing pump I can't say bit he definitely had plans for it before making that investment. What am I saying? There is no rout projects, there are many people that has tried real state and wish they never started it, some people has tried stock and they bought nonsense.

Making early investment doesn't guarantee anything too. I watched some of my friends bought early layer 1 projects back then before this dip and some of them got nothing, some invested early and they were vested and literally nothing right now. There are some layer2 project that were back by venture capitals I know very well but didn't do well. In fact, you can't convince me about any investment except Bitcoin, it's not free from risky but it gives me confidence than any investment.

[bangjoe]

An important lesson that the OP may have failed to highlight is that, it is not about early investment only but choosing an early investment with the right and solid business principles backing it. Buying early is not the main thing there have been many investors who bought early and still got nothing out of it at the end of the day. We hardly hear about these stories because they are not that glamorous to the ears but this is the reality. Think about the other bitcoin projects that come out after bitcoin where are they now and those who invested in them lost, so it is not about the timing and pricing per se but investing in something with a strong principle.

Choosing the right project is very important in every investment whether its real estate, stock, crypt or any other market. There are countless token in crypto world and only handful of them have given good return to their investors. If you blindly invest in new crypto project thinking that being early investor you will get same return like Bitcoin has given to its early investors then you are deemed to get loss. If you figure out the right project even at later stage then investing in that project is still a good option.

We will never know whether we are investing in the right place or not, because we don't know how the future will be, we can only plan and see the potential with the state of the project today, those who invested in bitcoin at the beginning also did not necessarily know bitcoin would get to the point now therefore this in addition to relying on faith also relies on luck in it with the strength of full consistency, with many fluctuations that occur and are very terrible, only a small percentage of investors survive.

It's okay to touch altcoins but we have to look at the prospects of the project and keep an eye on how the developers are doing, most of them fail; because the developers are no longer able to compete or even exit the project itself, and don't forget if you invest don't keep eggs in the same basket to keep the risks that we don't predict.

[Cheema02]

People don't necessarily buy cheap things because they want to do it, or don't see the value in the more expensive option, they do it out of necessity - they have no choice. If you're living a subsistence lifestyle and barely making the rent with very little to eat, then dropping $250 on a raincoat that lasts twenty years is out of reach when you need to protect yourself from the rain today and only have $20 available to buy a coat - even if it only lasts a year. It's all good preaching about what people should do and those of us lucky enough to earn more with additional disposable income, should be making those wiser choices, it is simply not a reality for a majority of the population in the world. On your investment point, that again is a luxury but those lucky enough to earn more will understand the power of compounding (over years) if you put your money into the right assets.

Many people don't buy stuff according to there choices due to there earning so they just buy stuff according to there needs so they just buy things which they can easily afford. For instance if a person has twenty dollars then how he can buy a coat with the worth of two fifty dollars so his perioity doesn't depends on quality its depends on his purchasing powers. And the same situation applies on investing. So the best form is compounding but investing demands a lot of money and wealth. In our societies majority people works hard and earn money through which they just pay there bills, rent and basic needs so for that people investing is almost impossible. So financial consultancy is the solution of that problems. Basic needs always comes at first then we thinks about investing so once an individual has some extra money for investing then its easier for that individual to grow and start a strong business in future.

[Smartprofit]

I completely agree with you! I've read that truly wealthy families have a long-term planning horizon. Theirs is 100 years (one century). The wisest people plan even longer (up to 500 years). Yes, of course, a single person can't live that long. However, a family (clan, dynasty) can easily prosper for half a millennium.🙋

The middle class typically plans for 20-25 years. This is the period when children are growing up and the mortgage is being paid...

The very poor have a short planning horizon. A year at most... and often much less (one or two months). Marginalized people (drunkards, drug addicts) live for the present. Their planning horizon is minimal.

At the same time, the longer your planning horizon, the more successful your investments will be. If you think not in months or even years, but in decades, then you will definitely make a profit, and all your plans will come to fruition!💁

[Royal Cap]

If you invest first, you will get profit later, In reality it is not always that simple. Because many times, people spend more on things that they don't really need because of the fear of the future. Then instead of investing, it becomes an emotional decision. Suppose you have been saving cash for five years thinking that the housing or real estate market will collapse, In these five years the market did not collapse, but doubled. This means that by thinking too much about security, you missed the main growth of the market.
However, I agree with your main point that preparation has value. Especially in financial life, having an emergency fund or good asset is a lot like that raincoat. But for me not only early investment, right timing is equally important.

[Odogwu-Blockchain]

From your explanation, investors only prepare for raining days because the previous rainy season went wrong, instead of repeating the same mistake, he has to prepare for the new rainy period by buying new raincoat. Maybe the old raincoat was not able to protect him in the last year rainy time. The new raincoat was strong enough to do the job because investors learnt his lesson of getting the best and quality raincoat off the best supplier.

Many lessons learned off this; every investment journey always seems to be rough, you make mistakes, learn, relearn and then fix every bug as long as you keep going.