High Cost of Waiting
Credit
100

The main reason people wait to invest

What is procrastination?

100

Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion are three credit bureaus that you can use to get this for free annually

What is a credit report?

200

You lose this if you wait to invest

What is money?

200

This is the number that creditors use to determine how well you pay your credit payments on time. It also affects whether you can get credit and what interest rate you pay for credit cards, auto loans, mortgages and other kinds of credit.

What is a credit score?

300

The addition of interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit

What is compound interest?

300

Expressed as a percentage of the investment’s cost, this rate is the gain or loss on an investment over a specified time period.

What is a rate of return?

400

The best age to start investing

What is 25 years old?

400

More than half of millennials owe more in this than they currently have in savings.

What is debt?

500

The age that you start collecting social security

What is 65 years old or retirement age?

500

This value is the addition of interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit, or in other words, interest on interest. It is the result of reinvesting interest, rather than paying it out, so that interest in the next period is then earned on the principal sum plus previously accumulated interest.

What is compound interest?