3 Dividend Stocks That Should Pay You the Rest of Your Life

It's been proved time and again that long-term investing is better than short-term trading, and when you're talking long-term, nothing's longer than a lifetime. Dividend-paying stocks come and go, but our Motley Fool investors think McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), Realty Income (NYSE: O), and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are businesses that are perfectly designed to keep dividend checks flowing in the coming decades. Are these stocks right for your income portfolio? Read on to see why they could be perfect dividend stocks to buy for the long haul.

Demitri Kalogeropoulos (McDonald's): Local and regional burger joints come and go. Yet McDonald's, with its 36,000 restaurants around the world, still dominates the industry decades after it first established itself as a leader in fast food.

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