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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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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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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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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
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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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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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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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