When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

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

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

Long shots almost always miss the mark.

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'