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The Oldest Retirement Advice in the World

Published on - June 13th, 2006 (Modified on - March 13th, 2009) (by J.D. Roth)

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Courtesy of last week’s issue of The New Yorker, here’s some retirement advice from before you were born.

Imagine how many rocks they'd have *now* if they only invested a couple each year...

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Marco - Stock Trading says:

13 June 2006 at 3:29 pm

As with all things, this strategy of saving one rock a day requires the one secret: discipline.

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