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KIPLINGER, gives some excellent keys to investing success. These keys are well-known and followed by successful investors. We suggest you paste them to your memory.

THE FIVE KEYS
	Key # 1: Make Investing a Habit
	Key # 2: Set Exciting Goals
	Key #3: Avoid Unnecessary Risks
	Key #4: Keep Time on Your Side
	Key #5: Diversify

The Five Keys to Investing Success

Ga,ga over Google

Investors have been in love with Google since the IPO launched at $85 in August 2004. Yesterday, it hit $500 a share for the first time. Pretty good return on investment for those who got in early. Google has been a success story since it's inception 8 years ago. Investors continue to pour the dough into Google, helping it to pass tech heavy-weights like Intel and Hewlett-Packard.

Google Stock Tops $500, And Boeing Leads Gain in Dow

To invest, or not to invest...

Young Money gives a good insight into whether a recent college grad should focus on paying off debt first, or investing right away.

Basically, GET RID OF YOUR F*ING DEBT!!!

Ask YOUNG MONEY: Should I pay off debt or invest?

Follow your own rules

Smart Money serves up some great advice on how to decide what picks to make:

"The best research, and thus, the best decision, is always the one you make from your own informed perspective.... The one piece of information that matters most to your bottom line: price action. If you're going to profitably trade stocks, you should start by observing them. Nothing is more informative than the price of the actual security in which you're considering taking a position."

Follow the Trend, Not the Crowd

Market Eye

Dow 12,342.56 +36.74
Nasdaq 2,445.86 unch
S&P 1,401.20 unch
10-Yr Note 100.16 unch

7:58 AM ET.

Knowledge is being dropped everywhere

The good peeps at Your Credit Advisor, give us a wealth of tips that some may have never learned. Great stuff!

"But if college is partly about training us for a job, shouldn't we learn what to do with the money we earn from a job? Especially in a country where 45% of college students are in credit card debt and 40% of all Americans say they live beyond their means, I think it's time to wise up to some of the challenges of money management. A few (say, 102) simple rules can help get your financial life (back) on the right track."

102 Personal Finance Tips Your Professor Never Taught You

Market Eye

It's The 11 Cash Commandments...

Straight from the good people at Money Crashers:

The 11 Indispensible Principles of a Money Crasher:

1. Always spend less than you make.
2. Do not believe in money myths.
3. Get out of debt and stay out of debt.
4. Save money for the unexpected
5. Pay for education with cash.
6. Find creative ways to boost your income.
7. Invest for the long-term and keep it simple.
8. Educate yourself about real estate, cars, and financial products.
9. Avoid scams and financial predators.
10. Give, Give, and Give more.
11. You and your spouse are a team!

Less can become more

Now's the time to start investing. You don't need much money. They will le you buy even 1 or 2 shares. Just invest.

"And you don't need an advanced business degree to learn good investing skills. 'When you break it down, they're very simple concepts to understand,' Dayana Yochim, senior writer for The Motley Fool, says. There are an array of books and Web sites you can use to educate yourself (check out the list at the bottom of this article)."

And you can use sites like Sharebuilder to buy stocks for $4 or less.

The Young Investor

Invest like a Billionaire: Sam Zell

Forbes drops knowledge of how billionaire club member, Sam Zell earned his....billions.

"A self-proclaimed “professional opportunist,” Samuel Zell founded his privately-held investment outfit Equity Group Investments with Robert Lurie, a fraternity brother, in 1968. The duo started out buying up cheap real estate throughout the U.S. from distressed owners, and then kept buying when values recovered and boomed."

After the jump, read a short bio and learn his 5 investing rules.

Invest Like A Billionaire: Sam Zell