When we think about business, most of us know, it's not an overnight riches thing.
People set up a business, it's a career decision, they grind at it for years, and in the process, they get rich. Strategies are planned over a long period, 5 year plan, if they buy an asset, they expect it to generate revenue for them over an extended period of time. This is real business, and most of us are realistic and we know it's hard and takes time.
Yet, somehow, when we put on our "investor" hats in the stock market, all this foundational wisdom evaporates.
When you decide to buy a business, or perhaps even set one up from scratch, you're signing up for a marathon, not a sprint. No entrepreneur launches a coffee shop, a tech startup, or a manufacturing plant expecting to be "rich" overnight. They anticipate years of hard work, strategic planning, reinvestment...