for me. But it was two simple lines in Chapter 2 that lit a fire under my butt then, and continue to inform my investment strategy even now.has generated returns exceeding 9% annually. This includes the crashes of 1929, 1973-1974, 1987, and 2008-2009."
I didn't want to look stupid by picking the wrong stocks, so I instead picked no stocks at all, comforted by the knowledge that I couldn't lose money I hadn't invested.lose money but activelylosing it. I was leaving it on the table. For every day that my money remained out of the market, I was missing out on a rate of return that I couldn't find anywhere else — and that had to change.