Word: persistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if you've already pierced your tongue, you can still come to your senses. The body has an amazing ability to heal itself. If you would just leave your jewelry on your nightstand, the hole in your tongue will eventually close. But if you absolutely must persist in lingual lunacy, at the very least keep your tongue jewelry clean, don't wear it at night or while you're eating, and, whatever you do, don't bite down...
...about America Online? You use it constantly and love it, and it's down 12 points in the last 10 minutes. It just reported a great quarter. What's your excuse there?" Knowing she would persist, I grabbed 10,000 shares at 99. Then, emboldened, I bought some Compaq and IBM and Dell, all of which were similarly headed south...
...like a fuss? It is--a long-overdue fuss. About two years ago, the video-rental business began fading faster than Godzilla. Remarkably, the decline had little to do with new technologies like video on demand, long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened: traffic...
First, understand that what's driving these prices is not so much business fundamentals as an imbalance between the handful of Internet stocks and the mob of portfolio managers like me who want to bet on the growth of the Net. I think that imbalance will persist. The best of today's Internet companies are already so established as brands that they will dominate online spending...
...suggesting anything dramatic. Patient, long-term ownership of stocks remains a key to financial security. But stock prices are a lot higher than when you started investing, whether that was last decade or last year. The good times may persist until the last baby boomer retires in splendor in 2029. But the market has a history of taking back a good chunk of what it gave--and when you least expect it. Investors got a reminder of that last Tuesday, when the Dow plunged 151 points, part of a four-day drop. It fell an additional 176 points by midday...