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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.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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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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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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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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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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Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
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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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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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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
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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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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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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