For a growth stock investor like me with a sense of history, investing maxims help a lot; I often think of one when I’m in an investing rut, or when the market is a bit confusing. However, my only beef with all of these maxims is that there’s only so many times you can hear the basic ones like “cut losses short” before your eyes glaze over. So what I’m doing today is adding some “how” to the “why and the what” of those basic maxims, offering some ideas about how to actually implement them.