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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
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the United States of America
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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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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
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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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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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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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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
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Invest in what you know.
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The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
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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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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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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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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
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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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