A person investing $5,000 annually starting at age 25, earning a 7% average market return, will have over $1,000,000 by age 65.
"let's say you're the age of 25 when you start investing and you're able to put five thousand dollars a year into your retirement account getting a seven percent average return from the market by the time you're 65 years old you're going to have an ending balance of a million dollars and some change"