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This book helped me be financially free

2026-06-06 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:42 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Money and investing · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Lesson from a book

Ali credits JL Collins's The Simple Path to Wealth, read in 2015 when he started investing, with teaching him what he needed to know about investing; investing his spare business cash consistently since then has compounded until he feels broadly financially free.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — The Simple Path to Wealth, the book behind his investing

  • ★★★ Ali says JL Collins's The Simple Path to Wealth helped him become financially free and basically taught him everything you need to know about investing. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali read The Simple Path to Wealth in 2015, ten years before this video, when he first started investing his money. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Parts of The Simple Path to Wealth are specific to the US, Ali says; readers outside the US can ignore those parts, as he did living in the UK. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Thanks to The Simple Path to Wealth, Ali has invested all the spare cash from his businesses consistently for ten years, and it has compounded to the point where he feels broadly financially free. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Ali recommends The Simple Path to Wealth to anyone who wants to learn to invest properly: the theory, philosophy and maths of investing, and how never to run out of money or lose everything. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

  • refine · How should you start investing? — Ali recommends The Simple Path to Wealth to anyone who wants to learn to invest properly: the theory, philosophy and maths of investing, and how never to run out of money or lose everything. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Central: The Simple Path to Wealth

Also: JL Collins

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