Choose Your Priorities

September 05, 2024

I recently had a young Teammate who had a truck payment of over $1,000 month tell me he “can’t afford to put any money in his 401k right now.”  I told him to “enjoy his new 1.6-million-dollar truck.” He gave me a confused look as I pulled up a simple investment calculator on the Fidelity website. I showed him how if he invested $1,000 per month from 21 to 65 years old, at an 8% rate of return, he could have over 4.8 million dollars!  Using those same investment numbers, if he waits just 5 years (until his truck is paid off), he would have just over 3.2 million!  That’s a 1.6 million dollar DIFFERENCE by waiting 5 years.  That, my friends, is how you can buy a 1.6-million-dollar pickup truck.  It’s YOUR money.  Choose your priorities.

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