Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.

Artists who are passionate about their music and in love with their art go independent because they want to continue making music and serving it to the world.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.