Early Bird: The Power Of Investing Young – Why I Invest

Excerpted from Maya Peterson's Early Bird: The Power of Investing Young - with permission

"Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth." -Paul Clitheroe

“I thought you had to go to New York and yell at people to get money. I was so mad because it cost so much to fly out there,” says Isak Dai, teenage investor and quiz bowl enthusiast. Even as a 10-year-old the only barrier he felt preventing him from entering the stock market was paying for a plane ticket to get to Wall Street. If losing money crossed his mind, which it rarely did, he quickly shook it off “I am still a child so it’s not like my...