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I'd like you to imagine that at that time, you would invest the $10,000 and you put that money in an Index fund. We didn't have index funds and but you will in effect what the S&P 500. Now, I would like you to think the while and don't do not change the Slide here for a minute. I'd like you to think about how much that $10,000 would Now be worth.
If you just had one basic premise just like in buying a farm you buy And hold throughout your lifetime independent and you look to the Output of the farm to determine whether you made a wise investment, You look to the output of the apartment house to decide whether you Made a wise investment, if you buy an apartment, Small part when I was to hold for your life and let's say instead you Decided to put the $10,000 in and hold a piece of American Business and never look at another stock quote.
Never listen to another person, give you advice or anything on the Word. I want you think how much money you might have now. And now that you've got a number in your head, let's go to the next Slide and we'll get the answer. You have $51 million, and you wouldn't have had to do anything. You wouldn't have to understand accounting.
He wouldn't have to look at your quotations every day. Like I did that first. I was already lost $3.75 by the time I came home from school. All you had to do. Was figure that America was going to do well over time that we would Overcome the current difficulties. And that if America did well American Business would do wee.
You didn't have to pick out winning stocks. You didn't have to pick out a winning time or anything of the sort. You basically just had to make one investment decision and your life, And that wasn't the only time to do it. I mean, I could go back and pick other times that would work out, even Greater gains, but as you listen The questions and answers we give today.
Just remember that. The over the overriding question is, how is American Business going to Do over your investing lunchtime? I would like to make one other comment because it's a little bit Interesting. Let's say you take in that $10,000 and you'd listen To the prophets of doom and gloom around you and you'll get that Constantly throughout your life and instead use the $10,000 to Buy gold for your $10,000 You would have been able to buy it.
300 ounces of gold. And while the businesses were reinvesting in more plants and new Inventions came along, you would go down every year into your look in Your safe deposit box and you'd have your 300 ounces of gold and You could look at it and you can fondle it and you get that mean Whatever you wanted to do with it, but it didn't produce anything.
It was never going to produce anything. And what would you have today? You would have 300 ounces of gold just like an in March of 1942 and it Would be worth approximately $400,000. So if you decided to go with a non productive, asset gold, instead of A productive asset which actually was earning more money and Reinvesting and paying dividends and maybe purchasing stock, whatever It might be.
You would now have over 100 times the value of what you would have had with a non-productive asset. And other words, for every dollar you have made in American business, You'd have less than a penny by a gain, by buying in the store value Which people tell you to run to, every time he gets scared by the Headlines or something.
So it's just remarkable to me that We have operated in this country was the greatest tail wind. At our back. Did you can imagine it's an Investor's, a value? You can't really fail at it. Unless you buy the wrong stock, or just get excited at the wrong time. But if you want to cross section of America and you put your money in Consistently over the years, there's just, there's no comparison Against owning something that's going to produce nothing.
They're frankly. There's no comparison with trying to jump in and out of stocks and and Pay investment advisor. If you'd followed my advice, incidentally, or this retrospective Advice, which is always so easy to give. If you follow that of course there's one problem, buddy. Your friendly stock broker would have starved to death.
I mean, you know it, well under the funeral to a tone for their faith, But the truth is, you would have been better off doing this than And then very, very high percentage of investment professionals Have done that are active. It's very hard to move around successfully and being really what Can be done with a very relaxed possibly.
And you do not have to be, you do not have to be. You do not have to know as much about accounting or stock market Terminology or whatever else it may be. Or what the FED is going to do next time. And whether it's Going to race three times or four times or two times. None of that counts at all. In a lifetime of investing.
What counts is having a philosophy that you've that you stick with? You understand why you're in and then you forget about doing things That you don't know how to do.
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