She retired from her $3,150-per-year IRS auditor job in 1943. At that time, she invested $5,000—a little over one year’s salary—into a portfolio of stocks. Over the years, she bought and held mostly blue-chip U.S. stocks and some municipal bonds. She didn’t worry about daily market fluctuations and rode out the difficult market periods. When Anne died in 1995, at age 101, her $5,000 had grown to more than $22 million, which she donated to a Jewish university. Patience was at the core of Anne’s stunning investment success.