The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.