Do you believe that investment is for lazy people?

[goldkingcoiner]

Investing is a bit for lazy people, I would say.

It is far harder to create something of your own than to leech off of someone else. And investing is just that, leeching. I have never really understood the "I gave you 1000 bucks for your business so when it becomes  multibillion industry in 50 years I deserve millions of dollars". There should be a cap at which the 1000 dollars becomes only so much money and not any more.

I realise that capital enables production but how much production could 1000 usd possibly enable? Investors should be putting in their own hard work to help the business grow successful instead of sitting and waiting and then reaping the rewards.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Investors always need some kind of funds to call themselves investors. There won't be any free funds just like that, will there? In that case, how can you call investors lazy people? It would be right to have some kind of capital that would allow you to organize your business and then become an investor from profit, since these funds are derived from income, and perhaps they can also bring passive income. There are many businessmen who always claim that they never have money, simply because all their money works. And if their money is involved in business, will these people be lazy?

[BALIK]

From what I have seen, most lazy people are poor. Meanwhile, investing requires capital, time, and knowledge. If someone is not willing to work or learn, where is the money to invest supposed to come from? That alone show investing is not for lazy people.

Investing start with capital, and in most cases, that capital comes from working and earning an income. So, the idea that investing is for lazy people is a flawed way of thinking.

[Iranus]

It seems like you have a really long way to go before you understand what is involved with investing. Quoting Elon musk like a million other fanboys just looks completely clueless - he came from a rich family and had backing to throw money at projects, one of which was PayPal which served a very useful purpose for many users but was ultimately built by someone else. That allowed Elon to earn a lot of money, which he threw at other projects that other people had built like SpaceX and Twitter. He didn't do anything especially creative except for throwing money into new companies. Investment for the average person doesn't correlate to this experience though, as chances are they will operating on a much lower scale like retirement funds or general index funds investing.

From what I have learned about him, Musk's family was relatively well off in South Africa, but they were not extremely wealthy from the start.

Musk is the co-founder of PayPal and served as CEO for a period, not just an investor. He also founded SpaceX. He invested most of the money he made from the Paypal deal into SpaceX, was directly involved in hiring, took a hands on role in key rocket engineering decisions, and is listed as a co-inventor on several patents alongside his engineering team. SpaceX is a company he built from scratch.

Twitter is the only company that he acquired outright.

[Inwestour]

Investing is definitely not for lazy people. I think it's actually for intelligent people who are capable of analyzing information, selecting the right assets from the hundreds or even thousands available on the market, assessing risks correctly, and managing their capital wisely.

It's not enough to build capital, you also need to invest it effectively. And instead of simply spending the profits you make, you should reinvest them into new assets to generate even greater returns. Investing isn't just about buying an asset and waiting, it requires constant market monitoring, reinvesting, searching for new opportunities, and choosing the right time to buy and sell assets. It takes a tremendous amount of effort, discipline, patience, and knowledge. A lazy person would never be able to handle all of that.

[tabas]

Who said that they're going to hire lazy people to make the jobs easier and quicker? I think that was Bill Gates but I don't think that investing isn't for lazy people. If someone is lazy, they won't have any money to invest in it. Maybe this is a vocabulary. And given the example, they're working harder than anyone else and that's why Elon has reached his status. At this point, he can be the laziest person after working very hard to his companies because there's already a system that he's built and that's the kind of investment that he's done all of these years.

[Obim34]

Investing is a bit for lazy people, I would say.

~snip

I prefer to be called lazy and be Fucking rich. 

The world is ruled by Billionaires and Millionaires, if truly Investing makes them lazy, I don't mind following their footprints.

Every investment demands good decision making, that is what the owner gives in, anything else seems not more important, as long the investment can pay for the labor or the capital becomes the labor and produce good returns at the end.

[kingstep]

‎To me, this is more of a call to attention and a challenge to those who doubt their abilities and capabilities, to start their own businesses with the experience and ideas you have, because even though investment in any kind of asset including Bitcoin is a smart move to build long term wealth, building a business could amplify your wealth and change society in more economic and job opportunitistic ways than mere investment ever could.
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If there is a simple way i can turn my $10k to an $100k dollar through investment that doesn't require me to do much, would it be wise for me to ignore such an option just because i am trying to prove a point? we are in an era where smart work always beat hardwork and if you can earn so much by just investing rather than working your ass all out, it is better to do it.

The capital required to start up an investment journey can never be gotten through laziness and maintaining your investment portfolio is not done through laziness. an investor has probably gone through phases where he did physical and strenuous jobs just to raise capital for his investment.

[rat03gopoh]

No, investing is only for smart people who see opportunities and have a steady cash flow. Also, not all investors decide to be lazy or depend on their investments for their livelihood.
It's a bit ridiculous if someone sets criteria for limiting one method of making money, while many people pursue two or more methods simultaneously.

[YOSHIE]

‎So I ask,
‎Do you believe that investment is for lazy people?

In my opinion, on the contrary, investment is not designed for those who are lazy, someone who wants to carry out investment activities must need good and perfect financial planning. Likewise with discipline, if all of that is not there it might be in vain, so I don't agree if investment is categorized specifically for those who are lazy.

Don't view investment as simply buying and storing assets, then you can think of it as investment for lazy people, if the investment is not thoroughly researched it will certainly end in losses, such as property investment and so on.

[Chilwell]

Who said that they're going to hire lazy people to make the jobs easier and quicker? I think that was Bill Gates but I don't think that investing isn't for lazy people. If someone is lazy, they won't have any money to invest in it. Maybe this is a vocabulary. And given the example, they're working harder than anyone else and that's why Elon has reached his status. At this point, he can be the laziest person after working very hard to his companies because there's already a system that he's built and that's the kind of investment that he's done all of these years.

What are consider as lazy is when someone don't put into practice to make anything good for himself or herself. Investment is not for lazy people because just as you said a lazy person cannot even afford to get money to invest. Take a look at world richest people now we can see that they are very hard working despite their money you will see them all around just for them to get more money. I don't want to make any comment on this because it sounds somehow lazy people cannot even come close to investment, because the sense of thinking will not even be with them when they are lazy.

[danherbias07]

No, I don't think so.

It can be for the wisemen, and it can also be for those who are too busy with their work. They should be considered when we are thinking about investors. Let's face it, there's too much to do now, and working our ass off as employees for a day job and some more jobs can be time-consuming. All we want to do is rest after doing all the work. So if a person suddenly has an idea to invest some of his savings after working hard, I don't think that is being lazy. It is trying to increase the chance of having a happy ending in their lives. Maybe an early retirement to enjoy life.

[Agbamoni]

There is no way you would sugarcoat your post to make it look good. The statement in the OP is wrong. What you've tried to explain is that investment is not the fastest way to make wealth. Rather, it is a way to sustain wealth. You should have just used a different title for the topic instead of this one. It sounds as if an insult to successful people who have found wealth and are sustaining it through investment. ROI of any investment is determined by the amount invested and the risk taken. A lazy person wont be able to take high risk.

[Akbarkoe]

I can think otherwise investors can say people are not lazy because they will analyze all investment assets in any field to invest their capital, they must know all forms of proportions in an asset so that their money can grow safely, look for information both from the negative and positive sides and stay updated on any economic and political developments to see the long-term investment and even continue to pay attention to its development.
Of the thousands of investment assets it is unlikely that lazy people want to do it, it is from my perspective.

[Lida93]

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‎Do you believe that investment is for lazy people?
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If we have to put the word lazy in context it's  wrong of him to say that investment is for lazy people, because as we know investment it's not for the weak lazy guy, and a lot of people have falling along the way because they couldn't continue to stay consistent with their investment.

If you're not smart you can't see an opportunity and grab it. And there's one thing the Mr failed to take to thought, and that's this, not everyone would be a company/companies owners like Elon Musk, some are there to buy shares in the company as investment which would keep paying returns as long as the company remains and growing in capacity. BTC for example was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, so does that makes every bitcoin investor a lazy person because they ain't the creator?

[Cryptomultiplier]

It seems like you have a really long way to go before you understand what is involved with investing. Quoting Elon musk like a million other fanboys just looks completely clueless - he came from a rich family and had backing to throw money at projects, one of which was PayPal which served a very useful purpose for many users but was ultimately built by someone else. That allowed Elon to earn a lot of money, which he threw at other projects that other people had built like SpaceX and Twitter. He didn't do anything especially creative except for throwing money into new companies. Investment for the average person doesn't correlate to this experience though, as chances are they will operating on a much lower scale like retirement funds or general index funds investing.

From what I have learned about him, Musk's family was relatively well off in South Africa, but they were not extremely wealthy from the start.

Musk is the co-founder of PayPal and served as CEO for a period, not just an investor. He also founded SpaceX. He invested most of the money he made from the Paypal deal into SpaceX, was directly involved in hiring, took a hands on role in key rocket engineering decisions, and is listed as a co-inventor on several patents alongside his engineering team. SpaceX is a company he built from scratch.

Twitter is the only company that he acquired outright.

The point is that Musk wasn't just relying on returns from investing in these companies or just buying the company stocks while working as a CEO or doing other jobs.
He invested in a business and played an active role in making it a success according to his design that when he invested more into it, the returns made him a Trillionaire as we know.

Some may have the skewed idea that when you invest in any business, all you need do is relax and wait for returns instead of to keep being active in chasing your dreams of owning or growing your business from scratch.
Lazy people are more passive and relaxed even with how they invest, while those who aren't lazy are more active even if they have investment that would pay good returns in the near future.
That's my point.

[Hamza2424]

‎So I ask,
‎Do you believe that investment is for lazy people?

The post talks about entrepreneurship and investing, but at the end you asked if investing is for lazy people. Well, in terms of starting a business, no, it is not for lazy people because if I have $50k, let's say, and I want to start a business, but another person wants to invest and sit doing nothing, I won't call them lazy, even if they are, because you are putting your money to work and they are not doing it manually. They must have invested it in BTC, a bank, or gold, and they are letting the economy and banks use that money and work with it to make more, and in return give something back to keep them happy.

In short, no, it is not for lazy people, but when we look deeper into it, we realize most people with such a nature are lazy, while those who are not prefer to start a business.

[puloweh555]

I say no. Perhaps lazy here can be interpreted as smart and efficient because with investing we don't need to work hard and prefer to find smart solutions. So, investing isn't for lazy people, because truly lazy people usually don't have the capital or discipline to invest because they don't want to put in the effort to produce something.

By lazy, I mean two types of productive laziness and destructive laziness. A productive laziness would naturally involve working smart, building systems, automation, and leverage like Elon. He worked so hard for years to build a company and a system that he can now relax because the system he's created is working for him. But a destructive laziness would involve not putting in any effort at all, not even taking initiative and not producing any value.

Because essentially the richest people in the world are usually very hard workers to begin with. They then become more relaxed (which appears lazy in the sense of no longer doing manual labor) because they've created systems, teams and assets that work for them. So, investing and wealth aren't shortcuts for the lazy, but rather the result of smart hard work at the beginning followed by disciplined asset building.

[Abdulzuruku01]

I don't think that investing is for lazy people, because building a successful business and investing is two different ways of creating wealth, which both needs patience and discipline. Most people gets the ability and passion to run a business while others prefer working, save and invest their money wisely. And one more thing is that you see those entrepreneurs they also do invest their profits and also alot of investors too do really work hard in their careers before they can get money to invest. So its not a matter of being lazy and hardworking. So for me I will say that real question here is how someone uses the resources,opportunities and skills that gets to build a much better life for the future for itself and others.

Absolutely no, investment is never for the lazy people, rather for those that are disciplined and mindset of making their business grow and bigger in future. Some business owners have the passion to run a business, some are more comfortable working, saving, then investing their profits.

From my view, building a business and investment are just two different ways to earn money while both of them required patience and discipline, it's only depends on how the business owners use the resources, chances and knowledge you have to build a better life themselves and the future of their businesses. Because investment is not about being lazy and it will never be rather depends on how the business owners manage their resources, opportunities and knowledge to build a better life for their business.

[Natalim]

Investors are said to be lazy because they prefer to have a passive strategy and passive income than going on the active way around. They become lazy in terms of daily maintenance, meaning they don't want to do physical job more often, they don't want to stick with daily management, since they prefer to just let their money work for them and allow them to compound all throughout the target years.

On the other hand, their minds are actively working on how to grow and expand their investment, and sometimes they experience sleepless nights while trying to finalize their systematic investment plan and its target goals.