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.

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.

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.