Why Why WHY Didn’t I Buy Apple Stock?

July 20, 2011 at 1:55 pm PT

Tagged with: Apple, Geek Culture, Joy of Tech, Nitrozac and Snaggy, stock

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http://twitter.com/RJWTimes Robert Wooller

A person who wanted to buy apple stock must be kicking themselves now for not doing.
Anonymous

I was laid off during the 2001 recession. I had to divest the stock I had at the company I was with and put most of it in Apple. It took a couple of years before I could be fully employed again, and during that time had to sell my stock (in part to pay AMT taxes on money I never received).

Sometimes you just have to laugh at life.

Of course there’s an alternative universe where I kept my stock, made millions more and then died when my Ferrari crashed.
http://twitter.com/forevekd KD

Never Regret..at least you have your apple products to Flaunt
http://twitter.com/tlaustin Todd Austin

Back when I was a penniless grad student, I encourage my parents to sink as much as they could into Apple stock. It was then selling for $13. It later split two-for-one. They ignored me.

A $13,000 investment then (late 90s) would now be worth, wait for it…

$787,400
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QIWTH57NHYPIMNOM5HS4IVAAT4 KennethF

As a comic book artist, how insecure do you have to be to draw your characters laughing hysterically at a mediocre joke?
http://www.facebook.com/toddjensen Todd Jensen

I was in that exact situation, had $1200 around on a whim purchased 65 shares. Through the years it split twice and today worth…

$98,000 …the crazy thing is, I’ve never sold or purchased another single stock since then, crazy luck!

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