Quote

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

Peter Lynch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Divorce
Investing
Ease
Basis
Romance
Bases
Commitment
Stocks
Sound

More quotes by Peter Lynch

Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
Peter Lynch
Image
Invest in what you know.
Peter Lynch
Image
I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
Peter Lynch
Image
Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
Peter Lynch
Image
Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
Peter Lynch
Image
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
Peter Lynch
Image
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.
Peter Lynch
Image
Charts are great for predicting the past.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
Peter Lynch
Image
Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.'
Peter Lynch
Image
You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
Peter Lynch
Image
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
Peter Lynch
Image
More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch