Apple stock is up 43,000% since its IPO 38 years ago

Got some great advice a long time ago. In a nutshell, avoid shoulda, coulda, woulda. As in, I shoulda bought Apple stock when it was $12 a share, pre-split. But it is fun to imagine what a $10,000 investment back at the IPO would be worth now (by my math, about $43 billion). Gotta love this Steve Jobs quote, courtesy of MacDailyNews: I saw a lot of other people at Apple, especially after we went public, how it changed them. A lot of people thought they had to start being rich. A few people went ...