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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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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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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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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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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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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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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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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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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.
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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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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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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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