Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.