Being a successful investor doesn't mean you need to find the little-known companies that yield life-changing returns overnight or time the market in hopes of suddenly experiencing a portfolio windfall. In fact, few investors will ever succeed in building a portfolio this way. 

Instead, if you focus on regularly investing your cash into companies with robust core businesses, solid moats, and the competitive advantage to drive consistent growth, and stay with those companies through the market's ups and downs, you can throw unreliable strategies like market-timing straight out the window.

If you're on the hunt for more great companies to buy and hold for the long haul, here are two names you won't want to overlook. 

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Source Fool.com