Or maybe like those Dutch who bought tulip bulbs.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160419-tulip-mania-the-flowers-that-cost-more-than-houses

Or Spawn #1, which was supposed to be the next big thing in comics: creator-owned, dark, edgy antihero. Except comics mostly become valuable by being rare, and they printed (and sold) a lot of these.
http://www.ebay.com/p/Spawn-1-May-1992-Image/85400694

Or this stock, which I bought in the late 1990s, and which I still believe in as a potentially transformative technology, which has earned me less than 4x return.
http://aethlonmedical.investorroom.com/interactive-chart

My point being that there's a lot of luck involved. Quincy is a great story, no doubt about that (which is why I upvoted it), but it's not evidence for an argument. That would require some data on the performance of buy-and-hold strategies across the board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking