Do you believe that investment is for lazy people?

[Cryptmuster]

I don't think lazy people can handle investment well and make it profitable. Because even in different aspects, active or passive income, such lazy people will never be an asset but maybe a huge barrier for the success of an investment.

And with all honesty, lazy people do not create progress in life, but they always manifest to live a progressive and profitable life. That's how ironic lazy people are.

I think lazy people don't even start learning about investing. If they somehow do get into it, they're likely to choose the first thing they come across, whether it's a promotional brochure or an ad on their smartphone offering the chance to start investing with just a few dollars through an app. We all understand that it's hard to call that real investing, and it may not even be profitable. To become a serious investor, you need to invest a significant amount of time, effort, and money into learning and gaining experience. That's why I believe genuine investing simply isn't for lazy people.

[Ayers]

I don't think lazy people can handle investment well and make it profitable. Because even in different aspects, active or passive income, such lazy people will never be an asset but maybe a huge barrier for the success of an investment.

And with all honesty, lazy people do not create progress in life, but they always manifest to live a progressive and profitable life. That's how ironic lazy people are.

I think lazy people don't even start learning about investing. If they somehow do get into it, they're likely to choose the first thing they come across, whether it's a promotional brochure or an ad on their smartphone offering the chance to start investing with just a few dollars through an app. We all understand that it's hard to call that real investing, and it may not even be profitable. To become a serious investor, you need to invest a significant amount of time, effort, and money into learning and gaining experience. That's why I believe genuine investing simply isn't for lazy people.

not every investor is successful, and not every investor takes investing seriously. that's why many investors lose money in the market, and some even go bankrupt

they may not be genuine or serious investor, but they are still investor. so I agree that genuine investing is not for lazy people, but investing in general is a different story.

lazy person can still invest. they are just far less likely to become a successful investor.

[lodocus]

If we were to compare investors with those who start businesses, investors might seem lazier. But this isn’t really a fair comparison because entrepreneurs, or those seeking opportunities to start a business, are generally very hardworking people to begin with. It’s perfectly normal for someone to seem lazy when compared to them.

Still, if we compare them to the average person, I don’t think investors are lazy. Perhaps we could say they’re people who prefer to take a more passive approach, but investing isn’t just about buying something and waiting for years. Making the right investment also requires effort and hard work.

[Queentoshi]

How can investment be for lazy people considering it demands a lot of educational background, research and knowledge in order to succeed?

I strongly agree with you. because investing requires a certain extent of discipline and vision as to what the investment would help an individual achieve. A successful business cannot operate without capital, and these capitals can come as a result of your investments. while investing may seem effortless and lazy it requires a lot of studying because before an individual dives into investing it is essential that they study the market they intend to invest in, this process takes a lot of mental work and strategizing which I doubt a lazy person would do.

[CryptoBuds]

And I agree with you, with a business that is started and developed it makes sense to also be said as an investment, it's just the difference that we go down directly to run it unlike investing in BTC which we only need to buy and buy.

The concept of investing is very broad.

Starting a business or launching a company is also a form of investing. Spending time and money on education, healthcare, or building relationship is investing as well. Essentially, whenever you put your time and money into something with the goal of creating greater value in the future, that is investing.

Investment can take many different form, including financial investing, business investing, and investing in yourself. And I think what the OP is referring to is financial investment like gold, bitcoin...

[Insanity]

I don't think lazy people can handle investment well and make it profitable. Because even in different aspects, active or passive income, such lazy people will never be an asset but maybe a huge barrier for the success of an investment.

And with all honesty, lazy people do not create progress in life, but they always manifest to live a progressive and profitable life. That's how ironic lazy people are.

I think lazy people don't even start learning about investing. If they somehow do get into it, they're likely to choose the first thing they come across, whether it's a promotional brochure or an ad on their smartphone offering the chance to start investing with just a few dollars through an app. We all understand that it's hard to call that real investing, and it may not even be profitable. To become a serious investor, you need to invest a significant amount of time, effort, and money into learning and gaining experience. That's why I believe genuine investing simply isn't for lazy people.

I'm with you there lazy person, investing is not a thing that can be done by a lazy person. Methods such as Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) or simply holding onto Bitcoin can make trading less frequent, but they won't make any trading less disciplined. There are still lots of things you need to know about what you're purchasing, budget management, being patient in a down market, and not making your buying decision based on your feelings. The habits must be maintained, not be lazy. Passive investing isn't without effort, rather, it's less frequent activity. The best investors in my opinion are the ones who do the legwork in the beginning to develop knowledge and plan, and then let it go for a year or so and adhere to that plan.

[Felicity_Tide]

When I read the headline at first, I found it quite provocative, but taking a closer look through Iyinoluwa Aboyeji’s comment,

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

Well, let me start by saying... I have no idea who this person is, but of course, there's always a room for everyone to air their opinion.
And after taking my time to understand what the person is trying to convey,.I honestly don't see it as enough reason to accept such an idea/statement, which is... investment is not for lazy people.

Now, my reason is because, building a business from scratch, and solidifying it to last long is a type of skill that is not common. Unlike investments that can be easily done, businesses doesn't just demand your time and consistency, but it also demands so many things like how well you can manage cashflow, adaptability, understanding customers, hitting the right audience, etc, which everyone can not do.

Let's leave investment as what it is. Rich people invest in stocks from the money they've made from their businesses. Average people do the same, but in what they can afford, maybe like property, etc. That does not sound lazy to me.

[Anayochukwu]

I don't believe that investment is for lazy people because it takes hard work and dedication to own investments and lazy people and hard work are not on the same page ever, most investors are very successful and they didn't get to that stage of success by folding hands together and crossing legs relaxing doing nothing, if you see an investor reaping the fruit of their labor without stress that doesn't mean they didn't do any hard work. Lazy people are never ready to learn and expand but investor are always willing to learn new things and people people only try new things in their minds without actually putting it out, investors are disciplined and committed until they get results but lazy people are not committed enough to wait for results.

[Crypto_Timothy]

I don't think investing is for lazy people at all, it's just a different role in the economy and to be honest its not really for everyone. You see starting and running a business usually demands more time, effort and direct involvement, while you see investing, that is about allocating capital to businesses or assets you believe will grow over time and both of them require judgment and carry risk but just in different ways. For sure entrepreneurship can create wealth faster if things go well but investing remains one of the most effective ways to build and protect wealth over the long term. You can as well own a business and still invest in other projects, so long you see profits long term.

[Abdulzuruku01]

I don't think lazy people can handle investment well and make it profitable. Because even in different aspects, active or passive income, such lazy people will never be an asset but maybe a huge barrier for the success of an investment.

And with all honesty, lazy people do not create progress in life, but they always manifest to live a progressive and profitable life. That's how ironic lazy people are.

You are right, I also totally disagree with the idea that investment is for lazy people. That’s the actually one of the biggest lies people tell themselves. Lazy people can’t handle investment and they definitely can’t make it profitable. Investment, whether active or not still needs brain, discipline, and patience. people think they can just throw money somewhere and go sleep for some years and It doesn’t work like that.

Even passive income needs active work at the start. You have to go for research, understanding the risk, and have the sense to know when to hold or cut losses. A lazy person won’t do any of that. They’ll invest based on hype, and then blame the market.
The truth is lazy people are not assets to any investment, they’re liabilities. They want the result but they hate the process.

[Sammye3]

What is the purpose of working tirelessly or investing in a potential asset? Are both situations not for making profits? So how does investment make someone lazy? Generally speaking, its a more relaxed way of letting your money work for you. On the contrary, it goes both ways because not every investment turns out to be profitable.

There is hardwork and there is smart work, sometimes its not the most hardworking people who are the most successful so this case should be seen from a different angle with the view of both results in mind.

[JoyceBTC]

Investment isn’t for lazy people and only people who want a better life and future will surely invest. Investment helps to build wealth overtime, even so many rich people in the world, all had an investment, if not they wouldn’t be where they are today.
Financial freedom is also one of the good results of investment, it helps reach one’s goal, and also people who invest have something to fall back to unlike someone who didn’t invest their money, might likely start from the beginning again . Only future focused and determined individuals invest because that is as a means of also securing the future.

[Cookdata]

Any physical or mental laziness is harmful to you. This laziness is caused by irresponsibility. If your family's financial situation is prosperous, earning money will not be of much importance to you. On the contrary if your family situation is not prosperous you will develop a mentality of getting into a good financial position and you will gradually become more efficient and will move towards earning money by acquiring skills in work.

What about people that has wealth through inheritance and make investment and refused to do work? Are they consider as lazy people or as smart people? You can't be lazy and be productive at the same, there are people that are blessed with wealth and at one time they become broke because they refused to work. Even people that are wealthy and filthy rich are still working because they know that taking something without addition will not make you richer.

I don't even know why we put investment at first, lazy people can't make investment, they can't even make money. There are people that are hardworking and know how to earned money but they don't know how to make proper investment but it's lazy people that we want to consider. Lazy people don't have money to make any investment, what we should discuss should be if lazy people will even make any money to try investment.

[Maslate]

Lazy people have no room for any investment. Because when a lazy person invest, either mentally or physically, you won't see any consistency there. What you will see is a good start, but after that, it will remained stagnant and the investment ends up a failure.

This is why lazy people aren't made for investing. They don't want to wait, they cannot process delays because they want everything to happen in instant, but investment does not work like that, even passive investments take longer before it will pay off and profit.

[Samlucky O]

Investment is not for lazy people, those who invent are smart and has plans to secure their future by all cost, knowing what the future holds. Investors are those that forsee the outcome of tomorrow today and that is what makes them smart people, while lazy people don't have plans for tomorrow, infact they the keep procrastinating till they meet the future and keep regretting why they didn't take advantage of Time when it's already too late, and this set of people are almost everywhere looking for whom to caution their blame on, as a result of their misfortune.

[slapper]

A person who founded a company with 50 employees has impacted 50 families in a different way than a person who has an index fund position. At least not directly, at least not visibly.

The assumption underneath that is that your worth as a person is determined by how much economic activity you generate around you. But I do not think I want to live in that structure? Like, the person who invests quietly and uses the freedom that generates to, I do not know, raise their children well. Or ponder the world clearly, or simply live without being eaten up by execution. Is this person less worth?

The Protestant work ethic really did a number on us. This premise that "seen labor is good labor". And that anything that looks like sitting still must be laziness or avoidance or complacency. But some of the worst decisions that I have ever seen were made by people who cannot sit still. They had to be doing something, building something, grinding on something because of the stillness.

Successful investing is a way of thinking, clarity and patience and an ego suppresser. And it break people who thought they were disciplined enough for it and were not.

[Zackz5000]

If you are lazy you can't make an investment i don't think it will possibly to call an investor a lazy person because lazy will always keep on procrastinating on what should do to grow wealth in the future, to succeed in life you should be hard and smart working lazy people wait for treasure to come meet them with lots of excuses why are aren't moving forward.

[Renampun]

‎Do you believe that investment is for lazy people?

From the way he puts Elon Musk's example alone I can say that there was a mistake in his mindset. Musk wasn't right to build all his businesses from scratch, he was just good at seeing opportunities and then invested heavily to be able to take the business from its original owner. after that he hired the best people to build all his businesses. so what does he want to prove here? saying that investors are lazy people? that's so funny. even being an investor is not as easy as it seems, if it's a lazy person I don't think that they will want to do extensive research, analyze financial statements, assess risks, and various other things.