$1,000 invested in Apple ten years ago is now worth over $7,000

Let's say you had $1,000 in spare change to invest ten years ago. And suppose you had the ability to think ahead and see that Apple's ground breaking iPhone would mature into the firm's top selling product, and be at the vanguard of a smartphone revolution that has changed the world. So you sunk the entire one grand into shares of Apple. Cable channel CNBC computed that your $1,000 investment in Apple would be worth $7,111 today, assuming that you reinvested the dividends.

Would you have been able to stay invested in Apple considering all of the rumors about the iPhone that appear every ...