"Investment success depends on finding companies that can sustain above-average growth, in both sales and profits, over a period of several years. Short-term results are deceptive."
-- Philip Fisher

			1971 -- After nearly a decade of preparation, the NASDAQ market opens for stock trading, as the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system first displays the median price for more than 2,500 “over-the-counter” securities. The NASDAQ Composite Index is set at an initial value of 100.