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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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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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Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
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In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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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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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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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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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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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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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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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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