You shouldn't expect most investments to make you lots of money right away. Most of the time, investing boils down to finding companies and stocks that can deliver wealth-building results in the long run.

The history books are packed with tremendous winners that spent many years in Wall Street's basement before going big.

Early investors who held on to their Apple and Netflix shares through the years are fabulously wealthy now. Through the magic of compound returns, a $10,000 Apple or Netflix investment at the end of 2004 would be worth more than $1 million today. And that's just an 18-year period, selected only because I wanted to show you a tidy hundredfold gain. Stretching the timeline further back results in even greater returns.

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