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🏰 The Coffee Can Millionaire

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Compounding Quality
May 05, 2026
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It’s #QualityTuesday!

In this series, I’ll teach you 5 things about the stock market in less than 5 minutes.

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1️⃣ The Coffee Can Millionaire

Back in 1984, a man named Bob Kirby told a story about a widow.

She inherited her husband’s stock portfolio.

She took the paper stock certificates and put them in a coffee can.
Then she forgot about them for decades.

Whe…

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