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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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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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In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
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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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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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.
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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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I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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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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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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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.
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Invest in what you know.
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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.
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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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