Thank you for your honesty. Well, in that case, I think we shouldn't trust his words, should we? I don't know about you, but I usually take such sob stories with a big grain of salt.

Back to the topic, though. You say in the title "Start investing so you can quit your job and retire early". But do you know of any successful investors who quit early? I bet most of them keep doing their job until very old age. And that's where the education issue pops up again. Even if you were so lucky so that you earned big money with investing, being uneducated, you would most likely lose it in years to come.