I am a buy and hold common stock investor. Warren Buffett is definitely my guru. He makes the most sense to me. I began investing in the stock market at age 14 in 1970 with money earned on my paper route. What I have done since 1970 is invest primarily in the Dividend Aristocrats whenever the stock market is relatively low. I have never sold a single share of stock except on the rare occasion when one of my stocks was bought out for cash and I was forced to sell.. I keep all of my stock certificates or direct registration statements in a safe deposit box at the bank. I do not automatically reinvest dividends. Brown University, B. A., 1978. Below are the 53 stocks in my portfolio. A,ABBV,ABT,ADP,APH,BR,CDK,CMCSA,CTL,DIS,, JCI,KHC,MDLZ,MDT,MNK,MO,MRK,NOK,PM,PNR,T,TEL,VZ, FTR,GE,HPE,HPQ,HUBB,JPM,KEYS,WMB,WPX, XOM,ADNT,DXC,MFGP,WBA,NVT,PRSP,OZK,SHW UNH, AAPL, CI,WAB,BA,WINMQ,BRK.B, SLB, BIIB,GD,JNJ,CVS