How Do I Become a $100 Millionaire By 30? (I’m 14)

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question comes from Nathan in Kentucky I
am 14 years old and I was just wondering
what is a good way to try and become to
try and become at least a100 oh oh gosh
a 100 million wait 100 100 million 100
millionaire by the time I'm I didn't
know that was a term I wasn't sure
either uh I was just wondering because I
discovered you guys on Tik Tok get
George uh and I thought to myself that
y'all had good information and I just
wanted to know if it's possible thank
you for your time wow I'm doing the math
for our friend Nathan here Rachel it's
not looking good 100 do you want to know
what it takes Rachel I would actually
would love to know okay it takes get
this you would have to invest from the
age of 14 to the age of 30 and we're
going to assume a 10% rate of return
sure okay yeah from 14 to 30 you'd have
to invest every single month 200
$20,000 so there's the true answer
Nathan Nathan but because now your hope
has been stolen from
us let me give you some do do a
millionaire do one million $1 million to
get to a million okay well that's so
that would be a that would be what did
you say 2,000 a month at that point 220
Grand was for a 100 million yeah so if
we take it down to 20 grand uh that's 10
million that's pretty good I'm going to
go five grand a month would get you to
two so two million just about 20 2000
yeah just about 2,200 bucks a month all
right from 14 to 30 okay all right
that's that's still a lot of money for a
14-year-old to be soing away we at least
got a bullseye we can look for um okay
so Nathan I would encourage you um to
get Beyond this like label of quote
unquote millionaire because I think a
lot of people believe if I just had this
amount of money whether it's 1 million
or 100 million yeah everything's going
to just be fine and I'm going to be okay
um and the truth is financially numbers
wise there's a good chance yeah that you
you know that's really going to help you
but your money habits are going to be a
big part of this and who you are as a
person Nathan is going to have a big
part in this because there are people I
would say that have millions of millions
and are still very discontent people and
they're still running this race
acquiring trying to find some level of
Joy um and peace in life and they're not
finding it through money because money
does not bring that it can bring
stability it can bring you uh the
ability to do things with your life that
is fun and have experiences like that is
all true but there is um I would say a
bigger character question there of why
do you want to have this millionaire
status and to go ahead and bust the
bubble that just because you reach that
does not mean that life is suddenly
going to be perfect for you that's I
feel like that's the myth out there you
know oh yeah well if I can just do this
and by 30 you know there's like kind of
that whole the fire movement it's like
we're I'm not going to do anything with
my life if this doesn't happen by this
age then my life is over and I've failed
yes it's insane so I just I rebuke all
of the get rich quick even if it's with
decent intentions and you want to do it
the less risky way there's just no good
reason that any human needs to make
hundreds of millions or even I need to
have a million by this age and the truth
is Nathan if you follow the Ramy baby
steps you're going to get there by 30
your net worth will be a million dollars
or more uh just by staying out of debt
stacking up cash buying a home getting
the house paid off investing 15% of your
income over time compound growth is
going to take over and do the heavy
lifting for you so that's the not fun
answer uh but I do think we need a new
book from Dave called Baby Steps 100
millionaires looked it up it's called
centimillionaire is the C- millionaire
that's right oh so it is a thing Senti
millionaire is you have 100 million more
I am not cool I I wasn't your word's not
mine that's all I'm saying thank you for
the you know Nathan it was a good brain
exercise even if it was an a pretty wild
question ask good for you the fact that
a 14-year-old thinking that way he's
going to be the the world changer out
there sure cuz it's going to take being
an entrepreneur to make that kind of
money or even close you know you're not
going to make that as a W2 employee
likely but I wish you the best maybe
Nathan will be calling in at 30 being
like hey just so you guys know I have
100 million I'm a wait what was it
called again STI mil Alex Heros you know
the super beef cake dude we've had him
on the show and he's he's a Senti
millionaire and he's an entrepreneur
that's how he did it and he's about my
age so call me a failure many many do
many do you're still working George you
know I'm here I'm doing it I just do it
because I love it Rachel I haven't had
to work in
years I'm kidding create your free every
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