The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Top 7 Money Making Hacks For 2025 That Are PROVEN To Work! Do Not Buy A House! Do This Instead!
Mon, 30 Dec 2024
2024 has been a year of shocks and surprises, before starting the new year, here is the expert knowledge you need to not just survive but financially thrive in 2025 Here are some of the essential pieces of financial knowledge for 2025: The power of compound interest How to break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck Whether you should invest in cryptocurrency How to perfect your investment strategy The top 10 money rules Why most people don’t reach financial freedom The confidence rule for finance 00:00 Intro 01:34 Investing 101 04:52 Should I Use Investing Apps? 06:33 How to Invest With $100 09:20 Common Mistakes With Investment Accounts 11:07 What's the Proof This Is Actually a Good Way to Build Wealth? 12:27 Compound Interest: Watch Your Money Grow 18:17 The Biggest Debt We Pay 20:25 Find Where Your Skills Are Most Valued 22:43 The Most Valuable Bit of Information You Wish You'd Known Sooner 25:53 Finding Your Unfair Bet That Will Make You Lots of Money 27:57 Applying Your Skills to Get the Most Money 30:27 Example of Ways to Apply Your Skills 34:03 The Importance of Doing Deals 35:21 Where Do We Go to Learn How to Make Deals? 36:10 Playing the Tax Game 37:28 What Are the Tax Games the Rich Are Playing? 40:00 How to Bring Your Tax Down From 40% to 8% 41:20 Leveraging Investments and Tax 42:48 The Importance of Understanding Tax 45:03 Morgan Housel's Capital Allocation Strategy 46:32 How to Get Into the Top 5% of Investors Easily 47:51 Dollar Cost Averaging 48:29 What's an Index Fund? 49:40 How to Build Wealth Like Warren Buffett 50:59 The Importance of Patience 52:55 Play Games Not Many People Can Play 54:32 Don't Do This to Make Money 56:02 The Blockchain 57:37 Investing in the Blockchain 01:00:06 Everyone Is Equal When It Comes to the Blockchain 01:01:46 Crypto Use Cases 01:03:05 If I Own Crypto, How Do the Other Use Cases Benefit Me? 01:04:18 How Do I Invest in Crypto? 01:07:10 The Bank or Government Doesn't Control Any of Your Crypto 01:07:59 How to Get Out of the Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle 01:09:38 If You See This, You're in the Financial Danger Zone 01:10:53 Pick Your Hard 01:13:41 Seasons of Life 01:16:19 Wanting to Look Rich Will Make You Go Broke 01:17:53 Stop Making Emotional Decisions and Start Making Logical Ones Ramit Sethi: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/aSZvN6VtsPb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/EedVkJXtsPb Alex Hormozi: Instagram: http://bit.ly/40WnLMu Website: http://bit.ly/3UasFTS Codie Sanchez: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/u3G7Nk0tsPb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/VsOtmy2tsPb Morgan Housel: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/Xapn1IStsPb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/e0uZ1qUtsPb Scott Galloway: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/1ezLPGEtsPb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/lRQaCHGtsPb Raoul Pal: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/rwzfyoOtsPb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/gqdDHBQtsPb Jaspreet Singh: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/oGfm8vJtsPb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/FUu6rdLtsPb Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACEpisodes You can purchase the The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: Second Edition, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb Follow me: https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the top money-making hacks for 2025?
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53% of you are planning to make a New Year's resolution about money, finance and investing this year because you want financial freedom and financial security. So we went through every conversation we've had about money, personal finance and investing and we found the most replayed and most shared moments from those conversations for you.
Everything from life-changing advice on savings, spending, investing, tax, crypto, buying a house and having a money mindset.
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If you could do me that small favor and hit the follow button wherever you're listening to this, that would mean the world to me. That is the only favor I will ever ask you. Thank you so much for your time. Back to this episode. So what is the S&P 500 for anybody that doesn't know? Yeah. And what are the returns that I'm likely to get from investing in the S&P 500?
I really want to simplify this for people that are at the very start of their investing journey. You know, because I mean, this is what you spend so much of your time doing that. I just think about my team here. It's in the diary of a CEO. There's about 30 people.
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Chapter 2: How can compound interest help me grow my wealth?
So let me explain what that is. A target date fund is one fund, just one, and you pick it based on the year that you're going to retire. So if you're going to retire in 2050, if you're going to be 65 in 2050, you go and you find that one fund. It's called a Vanguard 2065 fund or Fidelity 2065 or Schwab 2065. There's lots of brokers. These funds, it's one fund. All you do is put money into it.
That's it. The fund, like a pie chart, is automatically diversified. So as you get older, it gets more conservative, right? Because somebody who's 75 years old should be investing differently than someone who's 25. One fund. All you have to do is set your money up to go into it every single month. What is a fund? A fund is a set or a basket of stocks and maybe bonds.
So we've all heard of companies like Microsoft, Google, whatever. A fund owns lots of these. And that's important because we've heard diversification, like you should have diversified your investments. Okay, well, how do I do that? You don't need to go and buy 20 stocks and then figure out how much of each to do. That's too much work.
And honestly, most people are not good at that, even professionals. You buy a fund which automatically owns lots of stocks, like hundreds of them. And over time, all you, the individual investor, like me, have to focus on is putting money into it automatically.
So a fund, essentially, I've got £100 that I want to invest. I find a fund. Where do I find these funds?
You can go to Vanguard, Schwab, or Fidelity. All those are great companies. What you're looking for, regardless of what country you're in, is you're looking for a low-cost brokerage firm. But there's also apps and stuff that I can use. You can use apps. I don't like a lot of the apps because they gamify you to try to invest. They want you clicking and trading. I hate traders.
You do not want to be a trader. Traders lose money. Investors treat investing like watching paint dry. That's how sexy it is. Trust me, I'm not getting my entertainment from investing. I'm going out, go watch a movie, go watch Netflix, whatever. But investing is boring and automatic. That's how it should be.
I used a company called Hargreave Lands down in the UK who have an app. When I first started investing in funds, they had a very ugly app. So I wasn't very compelled to use it. I think it's better now. But I would just do it on desktop, which I do get your point because you don't want to screen all of that notification. I like ugly.
It should be ugly.
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Chapter 3: Should I invest in cryptocurrency in 2025?
Chapter 4: What are the common mistakes with investment accounts?
And we started talking about money one day and it was mind blowing how nobody in my team's lives had ever had the conversation with them about investing. We all think of investing as something that rich people after the age of 40 do once you have a million dollars. Or if you don't have a million dollars, then the only other way to invest we're taught is to buy a house.
This is driving me insane. It's true though, isn't it? Yes, and that's the central part of my work is that you can live a rich life and that rich life can be richer and more vibrant and more personal than you ever imagined. If you want to travel, you can travel for longer than you ever thought. You can travel, for me, at nicer hotels.
You can spend more time with your children, with your loved ones. Whatever your rich life is, you can do that But you've got to learn a few key basic things about investing and money. So let me tell you what I would tell my family when they come to me. They go, how should I start investing? The simplest, simplest way that I advise my family is I say, get a target date fund.
So let me explain what that is. A target date fund is one fund, just one, and you pick it based on the year that you're going to retire. So if you're going to retire in 2050, if you're going to be 65 in 2050, you go and you find that one fund. It's called a Vanguard 2065 fund or Fidelity 2065 or Schwab 2065. There's lots of brokers. These funds, it's one fund. All you do is put money into it.
That's it. The fund, like a pie chart, is automatically diversified. So as you get older, it gets more conservative, right? Because somebody who's 75 years old should be investing differently than someone who's 25. One fund. All you have to do is set your money up to go into it every single month. What is a fund? A fund is a set or a basket of stocks and maybe bonds.
So we've all heard of companies like Microsoft, Google, whatever. A fund owns lots of these. And that's important because we've heard diversification, like you should have diversified your investments. Okay, well, how do I do that? You don't need to go and buy 20 stocks and then figure out how much of each to do. That's too much work.
And honestly, most people are not good at that, even professionals. You buy a fund which automatically owns lots of stocks, like hundreds of them. And over time, all you, the individual investor, like me, have to focus on is putting money into it automatically.
So a fund, essentially, I've got £100 that I want to invest. I find a fund. Where do I find these funds?
You can go to Vanguard, Schwab, or Fidelity. All those are great companies. What you're looking for, regardless of what country you're in, is you're looking for a low-cost brokerage firm. But there's also apps and stuff that I can use. You can use apps. I don't like a lot of the apps because they gamify you to try to invest. They want you clicking and trading. I hate traders.
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Chapter 5: How can I break the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle?
Chapter 6: What is the importance of understanding taxes for wealth building?
Chapter 7: How can I leverage my skills to make more money?
Yep, Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, whatever they are. I have no alliance to any of them.
Neither do I. There's various ones in the UK. I actually do recommend Hargrave Lansdowne just because it's simple. And I think investing in funds, there's no fees. There's no fee associated with the investment itself. Obviously, they might take a percentage depending on which fund you're investing in. I take my £100 and investing in Hargreaves Lansdowne, you don't need, there's no minimum. Great.
From what I understand. And there's no, if you invest in a stock, they charge £12 per investment. But if you invest in a fund, it's free. I put my £100 into a fund. The fund is essentially taking £1, one of those pounds and investing £1 into Facebook. It's investing £1 into Google, £1 into Shopify, £1 into Spotify, £1 into Nvidia or whatever. It's doing that for me. It's managing it for me.
It's making the decisions for me. I just put the money in every month, whatever I can, and I leave it.
Yeah. And let's go even deeper. I love that we're getting into the nuts and bolts here because, you know, honestly, most people, they do not know how to invest. Literally, what website do I go to? And then what do I do? The fund owns these different stocks and some will go up and some will go down. And it's inconsequential to you. All you need to know is you own this fund.
Now that you've opened up an account and you've sent $100 or $1,000, great. You've made one of the most important decisions of your life. Now there's just one more thing you have to do. Set up an automatic transfer so that every single month you have a certain amount of money going in. Now, if you don't know how much money, use my conscious spending plan guideline. What did I say?
Five to 10% of take home is a good guideline, all right? You should be able to do 5%, trust me. Anyone who comes to me, they go, Ramit, there's no way, must be nice. I can't afford. I go, show me where you're spending your money. I guarantee you I can find 5% to send in every month. Now, you're not trying to send it in. I don't try to brush my teeth in the morning. It's a habit.
investing is even easier than brushing your teeth because you set it up automatically. The investment fund will automatically draw from your checking account and it will pull in $100, $500, $1,000, whatever your number is. And so you're not going to log in for three, four, five months. You're going to log in a few months later.
You're going to be like, oh my God, I didn't even realize that all this money is in here. When you add that plus compounding over many years, that is how real wealth is created. So I don't want anyone to think that you have to be rich in order to start investing. One of the ways you get rich is by investing.
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Chapter 8: What are the best strategies for tax avoidance?
Give me a case study where someone has followed that strategy and done well.
Okay, here's one way to explain it that I use in the book. 99% of Warren Buffett's net worth was accumulated after his 60th birthday. After he turned 60 years old, 99% of his wealth has been accumulated after that period. Because the longer you hold that for, the crazier the numbers get. When he was 60, I think he was worth about $3 billion. A lot of money. He's a multi-billionaire.
But now that he's 90, he's worth over $100 billion. And he's given like $100 billion away to charity. So if he didn't do that, he'd go from $3 billion to $200 billion since he's been 60. Because the numbers just get crazier at that point. He's worth $100 billion. So if his market, if his net worth goes up 10% in one year, he makes $10 billion, which is three times that he was worth when he was 60.
So that's when you look at somebody like Buffett, is he a great investor? Is he a great stock picker? Of course. But the real secret to his success is that he's been a good investor for 80 years. And if he had retired at age 60 or at age 50, nobody would have ever heard of him.
He would have been like one of the other multi-billionaires who lives in Florida and plays golf and like you've never heard of him. The reason he's a household name is because he's been doing this nonstop since he's been 11 years old and he's never stopped. It's just the endurance that's made him so wealthy, not necessarily the annual returns.
Patience. It's a difficult thing. It also reminds me of the story that you talk about in the introduction of your book about the janitor, Ronald James Reed. Yeah. Yeah. who, when he died in 2014 aged 92, had a net worth of over 8 million.
And he was a janitor.
How did he do that?
He took what very little money he could save from his job as a janitor, mopping floors at the gas station. He put it in stocks and he left it alone for 70 years. And that's it. That's all you need. That's all you need to do. If you have endurance in your investing and you can keep it going for years or decades, you don't need to be a genius stock picker.
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