The big question from here, which we’ll explore next, is: Given your interest and capabilities, should you try to pick stocks and follow Buffett’s lead as a stock picker, or should you simply dollar-cost-average your way to prosperity by increasing your share of American business through a low-cost index over a lifetime? Doing nothing else but indexing is a highly attractive option—relative to the little time or effort required, the results, compounded over many years, can actually be remarkably good. For most people, this will be the best choice.
