The stock market continues to soar, with the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) reaching a new peak in late January and surging by more than 20% over the past year, as of this writing. Nearly 43% of U.S. investors are pessimistic about the market's future,

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In 1998, Buffett shared his belief that investors should “only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.” Data from Finimize also proves that in general, the longer your investment horizon is, the less likely you are to suffer a loss.

Few investors garner as much attention on Wall Street as Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) billionaire CEO, Warren Buffett. The reason is simple: he outperforms. In his roughly 60 years as CEO of Berkshire,