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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Charts
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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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Invest in what you know.
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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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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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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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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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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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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.
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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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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
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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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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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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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If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
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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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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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