Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

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

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

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.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

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.