Investments are not for lazy people, investing in something takes a lot of mental discipline and consistent efforts and this isn't something that a lazy person is capable of doing. Lazy people cannot do anything consistently because they have chosen to remain comfortable without making progress. Running an investment is difficult and you cannot expect someone that's lazy to be able to do that. Laziness is a choice and people who exhibit such choose to remain in their comfort zone.
Well there are people who are mentally lazy and there are those who are physically lazy, there are types of laziness, and different people might actually define laziness in different ways too. You know some people view people who decide not to do physical work or activities as lazy, without considering their mental capacity.
This means that sometimes people think that doing business and any work requires hard work, so they think it is better to invest money in one place and take their savings, whereas by investing money once in this work, you can get profit later. That is why this saying is sometimes said in a humorous way that investing is a sign of lazy people, but it is not for lazy people. For good investment, you have to do research and face risks. Sometimes the work that gives us profit can also cause loss many times. Therefore, before deciding, we should think carefully about this work to see if this work is good for us or not, in which we should be patient and not be hasty so that tomorrow we can avoid any kind of loss. And where we want to invest, we should ask some people so that we can ask whom and maybe they can give us good advice.
From my own experiences and observation, calling people who choose investment instead of business is not proper. People who do investment thinks beyond today needs, which mean he is not lazy because he has long term orientation which actually take many effort and investing as an action of their thinking. People who do investment normaly has a healthy stable cashflow with surplus. So, we can not assume people who has surplus cashflow as lazy people because they created value and get paid.
When people decide investment as tools to change money become asset, its mean they are asset builder who transform salary become productive asset. They truly understand that value of their salary will be different during time which mean they understanding the value of time. They don't stop after investing because they always think how How does their money work too? When people do capital allocation, assume they are not only an income seekers, they aware about how, where, how much. Long process many consideration, too complicated for a lazy people.