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Charts are great for predicting the past.

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Great
Charts
Predicting
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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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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Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.
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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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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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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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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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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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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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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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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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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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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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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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