MIDYEAR REVIEW OF INVESTMENTS AND PERSONAL FINANCE : Personal Best
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We publish advice and insights from all sorts of investment and personal finance experts--much of it contradictory. So to find out what works in real life, we went to the source, asking our readers to recount their all-time best financial decisions. From hundreds of letters, faxes and e-mailings, we’ve selected a few of the most interesting to publish or excerpt. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
Time and the Big Mac
The best financial decision I have made was most definitely when I was 12 years old, upon the recommendation of my father. I purchased a modest number of shares in McDonald’s Corp. (because I liked Big Macs) with money I earned over the summer cutting lawns and whatnot. Not only has the stock done extremely well the last 18 years, but I learned that time is always on the investor’s side. And the longer one stays with solid companies, the more he or she will outpace all other forms of investments.
Mark Matyazis
Huntington Beach
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