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My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.