Ten years is a long time. Long enough to know how someone takes their coffee, to finish each other's sentences, to have weathered job losses, family crises, and a global pandemic together. Yet ...

Ten years is a long time in the stock market. Long enough to live through a pandemic, a historic bull run, inflation spikes, and a handful of correction scares. And somehow -- through all of it -- the ...

You're not really trying to predict the next quarter or the next runner. You're buying businesses that will pay you while you wait, and ideally pay you more each year than they did the year before.