"The $180 Secret: How One Technique Made a Secretary a Multi-Millionaire"

Grace Groner, a secretary for Abbott Laboratories, built a $7 million fortune by purchasing three shares of the company in 1935 and holding onto them as the stock split and paid dividends. The strategy for earning passive income from stocks is to find reliable dividend-paying stocks and reinvest the payouts. Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble are examples of companies with long track records of paying increasing dividends.