Newbie, we have ALL FELT your scorn - regardless of our position in life. Lee Ioccoa, the newly appointed chairman of the then almost defunct Chrysler Corporation, said it best 30 years ago when he said: "you can lead, follow, or get out of the way." Even ten years before we landed on the moon, 95% of the people in the world thought it was a crazy notion....Even TODAY AFTER we landed there MULTIPLE times, there are conspiracy theorists who claim we NEVER landed on the moon, that it was all a fake. Human beings are a fickle lot. Truth be told, your friends who belittle you for your beliefs don't WANT YOU to be different (understand "more successful") than THEY are. Their glass is always half empty rather than half full. Almost EVERY GREAT person in our history in EVERY aspect of life from authors to philosophers, to light bulb inventors, to Orvel Wright were similarly scorned and belittled by their so called "friends." If you have invested in this stock, then YOU ARE A visionary. But a vision without PURPOSE is folly. EVERY BILLION DOLLAR publically traded compnay began as a penny stock, some even less dramatically. The bottom line is that your friends are doing you NO favors. All they want to do is PREVENT YOU from being more succesful than they are. It's OK to LISTEN to advice of others, but in the end, you must make your own decisions - based on wisdom, knowledge, reasoning, common sense, and just as importantly, passion. If you made ANY decision based on ALL of these factors, then you've made the RIGHT decision. Don't let "OTHERS" steal your dreams.
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