Growing Rich With Growth Stocks: Wall Street's Top Money Managers Reveal the 12 Rules for Investment Success

Chill winds frequently blow through the financial press. If it's not the Y2K thing, it's the simple fact that stocks have been growing so fast for so long that there just has to be a disaster on the horizon. But you'll find no gloom and doom in Getting Rich with Growth Stocks. Kirk Kazanjian retained five top investors to share their secrets and their outlook on the future, and the result is a book that's refreshing to read and easy to absorb. It doesn't mean that there isn't a hurricane brewing somewhere offshore; it just means that after the hurricane has passed through, the warm breezes will return.

The five investors--Donald Yacktman, Robert Stovall, Shelby Davis, Roy Papp, and Elizabeth Bramwell--share a remarkably consistent view of the future: If an investor consistently picks stocks that meet certain criteria (global sales, a high probability of continued growth, low price/earnings ratio relative to the rest of the market), he or she will get very rich.

Likewise, they share a disdain for international stocks (it's cheaper to buy American stocks that do business overseas), trend-of-the-moment plays (what goes up like a skyrocket can and usually does fall like a rock), and market timing (be in the market all the time, they counsel).

Kazanjian organizes their investment advice into a dozen principles, and intersperses profiles of each investor with their respective picks for the "10 growth stocks for the 21st century." Those generally include the usual suspects--Microsoft, GE, Intel, Merck--and are hardly the point of the book. By the time you're done reading this, you should be ready to pick your own high-ceiling stocks, sit back, and imagine those ocean breezes. --Lou Schuler