@Judi, you’re giving good answers.
The basics to investing are the same as “business in general”:
1. Know the business you’re in.
2. Use whatever “force multipliers” you can.
In other words, learn about investing—even as you’re doing it. No one would ever invest if they felt they had to kknow “all there is to know about investing” before starting. So it’s okay to say “I don’t know anything about investing!” ... but that’s not an excuse not to start, to try it out, and to learn as you go.
And to expound on the second point, if you have the greatest idea in the world for a business, you’ll never get rich if you “try to do it all yourself.” This is why people hire and train others to work for them. Your salary will probably never make you rich, either. But “train” it to work for you and it can do a lot more than feed you just this week. The point is, let your dollars earn dollars of their own, and so on.
Definitely invest.