Apart from discovering that E=MC2, Einstein was also famous for saying:
“Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.”
John Larry Kelly Jr, a famed mathematician, showed that the way to create wealth was to invest in a manner that attempted to maximise the geometric mean of returns. By doing this you would exploit the power of compounding and become rich in the shortest possible time.
I do not intend to go into the detail of the Kelly Criterion as it is now famously called, but suffice to say this formula shows that you should invest big when the odds are great and you have an edge.
Warren Buffett is the most famous exponent of this approach. He invested 42% of Berkshire...
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