#compounding

Compounding needs two things — a seed, and time. I wrote about the seed already. This is about the time. And the only way to buy more time is to stay alive and stay well, no matter what.

The money tree needs time. It also needs a seed big enough to be worth the wait. Here are the four jobs that grow the seed — and the four things each one really sells.

I charted two kids from age 11 to 100. One plants a $3,000 seed and never touches it. The other keeps watering it, then lives off the fruit. Both end up rich. The chart is the whole lesson.