The best way to build wealth is to buy many stocks and hold them for the long haul. That way, you can ride out the market's short-term volatility and benefit from the value created by great companies.

Let's look at three companies that I think are worth owning for a decade or more.

The first stock I want to own for the long haul is Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). There are plenty of reasons to like this tech behemoth: its surging cloud business, its outstanding gaming division, and of course its ubiquitous personal computing software. Yet, as impressive as those business divisions are, I'm even more impressed by the company's leadership. 

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