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When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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the United States of America
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