If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.