Anyone who lives in an urban setting, has likely been on an elevator at least once. If you live in the city and use an elevator on a daily basis you begin to have expectations of elevator service. The writer worked in a variety of settings including one building where the standard was less than 30 second wait from pushing the elevator to getting in. Other buildings have considerably longer standards, evoking memories of the old movies with an elevator operator, they were slow but reliable.

To bridge to dividend paying stocks and time horizon. If you expect to have riches overnight, once it a while it happens, you maybe in for a long elevator wait. If your expectations are for an extended time horizon with investments in good companies which have a habit of increasing their sustainable dividends, then the wait is worth the ride to the top.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions