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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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If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.
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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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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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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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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.
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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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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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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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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.
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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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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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