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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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Invest in what you know.
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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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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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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.
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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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It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, Where did the Dow close? I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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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 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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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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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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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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