Originally Posted by RawAlex

For every google, there is an enron. Rare that you would pile all of your money into a single stock. In fact, if you bought into Google in January 2006, you are actually a net value loser at this point.

DJIA - 2002 to today - from 10k to 13k (round numbers) or a move of about 30%. (with a better result if you started in 2003, where it bottomed out).

Plus, of course, you could have bought gold at $300 US an ounce, sell it at today's $692 and made 125%... less of course the 44% because of losses to the Euro (and most other major currencies).

there are plenty of options.