Sometimes, you can spend an expensive five hours hunting on the web for data that a research librarian could retrieve from a reference book in minutes.
~ Pat Wagner
Who cares about "sometimes" when making a decision? What counts is the expectation, what happens on average.
Yes, sometimes investing all your savings in a single high-risk stock picked at random while drunk works better than listening to various experts, researching the relevant literature and diversifying your investments. That doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: