And again, I wish you well on your hope-based longterm hold.
But since you brought up numbers:
Instead of putting that same 10k in a stock (any stock) with the hope it'll go to the moon "in a few years",
Competently daytrade it over a year.
2019 has 252 trading days. Averaged out earning of $500/day is $126 000 of earnings in one year + your original 10k. If we average it out to two years, that's over a Quarter Million.
Far more likely than the "buy and hope for a few years" strategy. But that's Me.