Quote

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

Peter Lynch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Winner
Investing
Lifetime
Successful
Minuses
Bigs
Pluses
Need
Overwhelm
Needs
Stocks
Work
Winners

More quotes by Peter Lynch

Image
You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
Peter Lynch
Image
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Peter Lynch
Image
Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
Peter Lynch
Image
I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
Peter Lynch
Image
If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
Peter Lynch
Image
The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
Peter Lynch
Image
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
Peter Lynch
Image
It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
Peter Lynch
Image
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
Peter Lynch
Image
My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
Peter Lynch
Image
I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
Peter Lynch
Image
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
Peter Lynch
Image
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
Peter Lynch