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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

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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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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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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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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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The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
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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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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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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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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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Invest in what you know.
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
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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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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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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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