"I manifest a future and that future is so convincing, there's no way it won't happen." -- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on how he makes crucial decisions
From the latest Lex Fridman podcast
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Buffett discourages most people from picking individual stocks because beating the market consistently is extremely difficult.
He believes a simple, low cost index fund is more likely to outperform the average actively managed fund over the long run.
With a weekly $100 investment you could have:
$87,032 in 10 years
$312,771 in 20 years
$898,281 in 30 years
$2,416,941 in 40 years
Most of the growth comes from returns, not contributions.
Billionaire Warren Buffett averaged almost 20% per year since 1965 by picking stocks.
Yet he says most people should invest in an S&P 500 index fund instead.
Here’s why.