Most individual investors would be better off in an index mutual fund. - Peter Lynch

Houses, like stocks, are most likely to be profitable when they’re held for a long period of time. Unlike stocks, houses are likely to be owned by the same person for a number of years — seven, I think, is the average. Compare this to the

The great joke is that the next time is never like the last time, and yet we can’t help readying ourselves for it anyway. This all reminds me of the Mayan conception of the universe.

Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business