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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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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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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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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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Invest in what you know.
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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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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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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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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 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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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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I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
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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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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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