Saving dominates returns early in a career and returns dominate saving later, because compounding is back-loaded.

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• Most investment returns come from long-term compounding rather than the price paid at purchase. BCBoris Cherny7 Sept 2022
• Invest in your education as early as you can, so it has the longest time to compound ASAlice Schroeder10 Nov 2009
• Over the long term a stock is hard put to earn a much better return than the business underneath it earns CMCharlie Mungerc. 1994
• Spending less lowers costs and raises profit, leaving more money saved to invest for greater investment returns. PLPieter Levels23 Sept 2026
• Being average for an above-average period of time can lead to a well above-average result, because endurance rather than this year's return is the variable that matters. MHMorgan Housel28 May 2024

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