Early Starter
Delayed Starter
Cost of delay = ₹8.62 crores
Person A has 3.4 times more wealth than Person B with the same investment.
Imagine two friends, Person A and Person B. Both dream of being financially free at 60 — but they make different choices.
At age 25, he puts a lump sum of ₹10 lakhs and also start a SIP of ₹10,000 every month for 10 years (till age 35). Total money invested = ₹22 lakhs. Then A stops, but doesn’t withdraw the money. By the time A is 60, with an average return of 13% per year, the investment value has grown on its own to ₹12.22 crores.
B starts the same plan at age 35 — ₹10 lakhs lump sum + ₹10,000 SIP per month for 10 years (same ₹22 lakhs). But by 60, B has only ₹3.60 crores.
Both put in the same money for the same time — ₹22 lakhs for 10 years. But A has ₹8.62 crores more!
This is called the cost of delay — waiting costs you big time.
Moral: Time is your biggest asset in investing — the sooner you begin, the more powerful compounding becomes.
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