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How to create a diversified portfolio
How to analyze stocks and bonds
Understanding the basics of investing
Assets and Liability
Invest in Assets, and avoid Liabilities
Knowing the difference between an asset and a liabiltiy is necessary to ensure you're making strong investment decisions.
Asset - Makes you money
Liability - Costs you money
Invest in more assets, like business, stocks, bonds, mutual funds. Anything whose value appreciates over time. Invest your excess income into assets, making money make money.
Some liabilities are commonly mistaken for assets. For example, a house to a common man is a huge debt in terms of home loans for a large period of time.
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Fear and Greed
Fear and greed can drive financially ignorant people to make irrational decisions.
If you have money, you are likely to focus on all the new things it can buy (greed). If you don't have it, you worry you might never have enough (fear).
People who are ignorant about ho...
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A summary
Because we're not trained in financial intelligence in school it's up to us as individuals to develop this trait by ourselves. We are only likely to become rich or financially independent once we have both a stronf financial IQ and a firm, ambitious mindset to support it. In the end, what you inv...
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Profession and Business
Your profession pays the bills, but your business is what will make you wealthy.
Profession is what you do from 9-5. It is what pays the bills, buys the groceries and covers other living costs.
Business, is what you invest your money and time, to grow your assets. Inv...
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Risks
To become wealthy, one must learn to take risks.
Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. If you wish to change your current financial state, you'll need to start handling your finances differently.
The biggest ...
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Financial Intelligence
Despite being vital for both personal and societal prosperity, we receive no training in financial intelligence.
Being rich is not about being talented or capable. The world is full of such people, and most of them are poor. What they lack, is financial intelligence, an apt...
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Taxes
Understand the tax rules to help you minimize your taxes.
By becoming aware of how the "system" works in your country, you may be able to regally reduce how much money the goverment takes from you.
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Realistic appraisal of finances
Financial self-education and a realistic appraisal of finances are the building blocks of growing wealthy.
Earlier you start at building your personal wealth, the better. If you begin at 20, you're far more likely to become rich, than at 30.
Set financial goals based ...
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Laziness and Arrogance
Laziness and arrogance can drive even financially knowledgeable people to poverty.
Personality pitfalls, like laziness and arrogance can hamper and even reverse the journey to wealth. Laziness is ignorance to certain variables, or even avoiding to make the right financial d...
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Motivation
The road to wealth is long, so you must keep yourself motivated.
Journey to wealth is hard, long, and trying. It's easy to lose heart when you watch your risky investment suddently tumble. During such setbacks, you'll need to find ways to stay motivated.
Make lists of...
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