Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

It's EASY To Make Money Investing! Here's Why.

16 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, Lewis Howes answers a question about how to explain investing to people in their 20s and 30s who have never invested before. He emphasizes that starting a business is extremely difficult, costly, and unlikely to generate significant income in the early years, whereas investing allows a person to allocate money into assets that can generate passive income without the need to work harder. He positions investing as a simpler, more realistic path to wealth for young adults, contrasting it with the challenges of entrepreneurship.

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If you were to simplify for someone in their 20s or 30s who's never invested before on how to invest and what to invest in, what would you share with them? The idea of starting a company that's half of my life. That is exceptionally hard. And it's rare to make a lot of money in the first couple years of running a business. There's so many costs that you don't think about that. It's just like it is hard. It's almost impossible. Listen, I own businesses. I own restaurants. That's what a lot of people think about. Let me go launch a business when all we could do is just let me put some of my money into investments and let it make money for me without having to work harder. Right? Yes.