Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested

The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.

You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.