I'll Share This Investing Tip Until I'm Blue in the Face
I didn't start really investing my money until I was almost 30 years old. During my twenties, I had my reasons for staying out of the stock market. I was trying to pay off the educational debt I'd racked up, build myself a nice emergency fund, and save up to purchase a home.
As such, holding off on investing wasn't necessarily irresponsible on my part -- it was just something I had to do to meet other pressing short-term goals. But had I started investing five, six, or seven years earlier, I'd have a lot more money to my name right now.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of people I know who didn't start investing until they were almost 40. And it's these people I'm sort of worried about, namely because they lost out on many crucial years of building wealth for retirement and other milestones.
Source Fool.com
