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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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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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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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If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, Where did the Dow close? I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
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I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
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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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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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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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It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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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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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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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.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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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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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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