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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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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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Invest in what you know.
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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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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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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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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That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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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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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
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If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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