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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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Past
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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Invest in what you know.
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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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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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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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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'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
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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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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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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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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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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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