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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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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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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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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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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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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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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
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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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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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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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I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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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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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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