At lunch the author heard a speech about a classic kids story – Dumbo the Elephant. The speaker recently had his first child and started rereading classic kid stories is part of his parenting job. One of the reasons why classic kid stories such as Dumbo the Elephant are classics is the simple but effective message. In case you do not the story, Dumbo was born with big ears, when most elephants have small elephants. Dumbo made friends with the circus mouse when mice and elephants generally do not get along. Dumbo’s ears allowed him to glide or fly when all elephants can not. The message is whatever your abilities are believe in yourself.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, after you have done your homework, believe in yourself that you have made the correct decision. Part of your homework is number of years the stock has been paying dividends? has the company raised the dividend? what is the outlook for the stock without dividends? with dividends? When you reached your conclusion believe in yourself that you have made the correct one.

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