We believe long-term investing in high-quality companies is a tried-and-true method for creating and preserving wealth. Tried-and-true methods are such because they have been tried, and not in the sense that someone thought “I’ll give it a try,” but rather in the sense that the methods have been put through multiple landscapes of trials. Only after a method has been tried and succeeded numerous times in numerous environments does it get the blessing of being designated “true.