Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.

When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.