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Peter Lynch Inspirational Quotes (77)

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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
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What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.
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The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
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As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
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That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.
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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.
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When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.
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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
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Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'
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Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.
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