The Last Safe Investment

Outline

The Last Safe Investment (2016) argues that a person’s most dependable long-term investment is the development of personal abilities, relationships, knowledge, and earning power. It encourages readers to use money and time strategically so that present choices can produce greater resilience, opportunity, and quality of life in the future.

• The most dependable long-term investment is in yourself: your abilities, relationships, knowledge, and earning power.
• Skills, trusted relationships, and knowledge are assets you can keep building, which gives you resilience when the world is unpredictable.
• Money and time should be used strategically, so that what you choose today creates more opportunity later.
• Better present choices about where your time and money go lead to a higher quality of life in the future.
• Building your earning power supports career security and wealth that lasts, rather than depending on outside circumstances.

Michael Ellsberg and Bryan Franklin are authors, speakers, and advisers whose work examines unconventional education, entrepreneurship, personal development, and wealth. They encourage people to look beyond traditional financial assets and recognise the lasting value of skills, networks, health, and practical experience.