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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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When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
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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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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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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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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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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 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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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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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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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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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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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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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't see the future through a rearview mirror
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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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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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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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