Three men, a American, a French and a Jew were sentenced to spend 10 years in jail. The kind prison warden allows each man to take along one thing with them. The American requested for 10 boxes of cigar. The French requested to bring his beautiful girlfriend along. And the Jew requested for a laptop with internet access. The prison warden agreed to all their requests.

After 10 years, the American rushes out of the prison, trembling like a leaf, and says, “Anybody got a match?”

The French comes out with his beautiful girlfriend and half a dozen of children..

The Jew emerges and announces that his assets had tripled and is now a multimillionaire! With access to the internet , he has not stop investing during the prison time. He is very thankful to the prison warden and promised to give him a Roll Royce as a gift!

Above is just a simple joke on how investing can help to accelerate your wealth if you do it right. While not all investments will always turn out to be fruitful, by not investing in any forms will only see the value of your money being gradually eroded by inflation. Investing is a good tool use by many to combat inflation and it is never too late to start. Check out my earlier post to have a rough idea of what investment tools are available if you are clueless to investing.