Just remember you are investing emotionally and financially for the long term.

By investing for the long term with an individual selection of stocks, it's quite possible to beat the market.

That would encourage people to invest for the long term, more cautiously.

Say you are convinced of the need to invest for the long term.

You invest for the long term, so it doesn't matter what it's doing right now.

By contrast, institutions have the benefit of investing truly for the long term.

Another guideline, of course, is to invest only for the long term.

This failure to invest for the long term can be seen also in innovation, the development of new ideas and products.

But people who invest for the long term felt like they were being held hostage, too.

"In those cases, investors have not made any decision except to continue to invest for the long term."