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

Charts are great for predicting the past.

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

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.