A few years ago my cousin called me with a question I have heard many times since: “I want to start investing. What should I look out for?” He had some savings, a long time horizon ahead of him, and the good instinct that saving alone would not be enough to grow his wealth. But he did not know where to begin.
I sat down at my desk and put together a presentation. Not as investment advice, but as a travelogue: this is the road I walk myself, these are the lessons I have learned along the way, and these are the thinkers on whose shoulders I stand.
Investing is not difficult. But it demands something many people find harder than calculations or spreadsheets: patience, discipline, and the ability to keep your own emotions in check.
This book is written for the investor who wants to get serious. Not the investor who wants to get rich quick — that one will be disappointed here. But the investor who understands that the real reward goes to those who work patiently, consistently, and methodically. Someone who is willing to learn.
