If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49.00 left. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1, 000. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling refund, you would have had $214.00.

—New Retierment Planning for Small Business - josh katinger’s “stuff i’d otherwise forget” (via soxiam)