Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

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.

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.