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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
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Charts
Predicting
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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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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.
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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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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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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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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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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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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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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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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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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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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 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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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