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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Predicting
Past
Great
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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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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
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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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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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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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Invest in what you know.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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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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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
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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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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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