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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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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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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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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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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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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
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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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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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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I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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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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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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