Most entrepreneurs are bad investors.

They often consider investing boring and pay a charlatan to manage their money for an absurd fee.

Most investors are bad entrepreneurs.

They are usually overconfident and have no clue of how to actually operate a business.
Operating a business is hard.

It’s easy to look at a business as a spreadsheet or through the lens of strategy decks and KPIs at a board meeting, but in reality a company is a group of people.

People are hard to inspire and drive towards a goal.

On the flip side...
Investing is hard.

It requires decoding all of the silly finance terms that the world uses to obscure relatively simple concepts so that they can charge huge fees.

It also requires the opposite of entrepreneurship: inaction. Sitting on your hands. Waiting...
But, if you can learn both sides of the coin, it can be transformative.

The best entrepreneurs I know think like investors and vice versa.

“I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.”

–Warren Buffett
Ack Buffett quote got autocorrected:

“I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor”
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