Originally Posted by johnafacade

I had a stock tip on a company called Aironet in '99 that I passed up because I was too lazy to learn how to buy a stock (I was 21).

If I'd put the $1000 into it I had to invest and held on to it for one year, I would've made over $3 million. Cisco bought the company and the stock became Cisco stock 1-1, went from 6 or 7 dollars to $140something and then split 3 times.

Every time I think of it, I just want to scream.