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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.
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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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I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'
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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'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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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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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 follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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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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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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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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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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There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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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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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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