You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

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

What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.