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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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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 only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
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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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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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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
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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.
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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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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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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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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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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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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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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.
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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 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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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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