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Peter Lynch Inspirational Quotes (77)

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In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.
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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
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People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, Where did the Dow close? I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
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If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
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A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, This is it. I'll never get back in again. And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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Invest in what you know.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
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The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.
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It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.
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Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
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I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
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