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Chapter 8

Accumulation of riches takes Time

I remember listening to a successful owner of a radio station talking about how she used
to be a voracious saver in her twenties. She bought a piece of land while in college.
Twenty years later the land was worth a fortune. She was able to sell it and use the money

she made from the sale to purchase the license to operate the radio station she now
owned.

And to drive home her point, she declared that any twenty-year-old that owned jewelry or
clothing that was more expensive than her own was not wise.

Why?

Because starting from a young age to look as rich as a businesswoman that had been
working for 20 years just didn’t make sense.

It takes time to become rich and even more time to become very rich.

No matter the investment path you use, riches will not be made in a day or in a month.

There will be the investing stage, the waiting and persevering stage, and finally the profit-
making stage. Sometimes it takes several months. But in the real world, most times it

takes several years, sometimes decades.

So please do yourself a big favor and forget about looking for any overnight business

scheme. It just doesn’t work that way.

Most overnight investment opportunities turn out to be illegal and fraudulent.

Wealth building is not a sprint, it is a marathon.

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