Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

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

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.