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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.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, This is it. I'll never get back in again. And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
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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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