Invest Like a Tortoise, Not a Hare

In the following video, Fool contributor Matt Thalman takes the old children's bedtime story of the Tortoise and the Hare and relates it to the stock market. Using this easy-to-understand metaphor, he shows that slow and steady will win the race.

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