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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
Peter Lynch
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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
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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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