Successful investing involves choosing high-quality stocks and sticking with them for years, or even decades. It's important to learn how to ignore the noise and the short-term movements that go along with being in the stock market. If you do, you'll reap the rewards of long-term investing.

(NYSE: V) is a great stock that's delivered high gains for long-term investors. If you had invested $10,000 in Visa stock 15 years ago, you'd have a whole lot more right now. Let's go through why it's been such a great investment and whether Visa can pull it off again.

Visa has been an outstanding stock to own because it operates an industry-leading business with industry-topping profit margins. It's best known as a credit card network, and it makes money every time a user swipes a card, with nearly no incremental costs for each swipe. 

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