Thursday, April 18, 2013

Start Early, Little Millionaire!



If you put aside $ 5,000 every year from the time you are 20, ( assuming that you earn 6% interest) that's about all you need to do, to retire a millionaire!!!!

I am certainly not making this up.

Pick up a spread sheet and input the following numbers:
Interest Rate (rate) = 6%
Number of interest earning periods [ if you start at 20, then you will have 45 years till you retire( nper)] = 45
Annual Payment [ How much you will be putting away every year (Pmt)] = $5,000

And here is the formula.
=FV (rate, nper,pmt)  = FV (6%, 45,5000) = ? Check it out to see if I was telling the truth. Never under estimate the power of compound interest.

Well, if you are over 20, it is never too late to start, but also go and educate at least one 15 year-old, so he / she will have time to plan to start putting away at least $5,000 every year starting at age 20 or even sooner. 

Educate your kids, Educate your friends kids. Educate anyone who you have access to. Let's make everyone a millionaire. Start early. Start now.

And believe me, one who becomes financially wise at 20, will certainly not stop at the first million. Here's to a million millionaires!