Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

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

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.

When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

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

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes