Quote

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

Peter Lynch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Time
Choosing
Finance
Stock
Investing
Spend
Least
Researching
Much
Refrigerator
Would
Refrigerators

More quotes by Peter Lynch

Image
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
Peter Lynch
Image
In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
Peter Lynch
Image
More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
Peter Lynch
Image
You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
Peter Lynch
Image
Invest in what you know.
Peter Lynch
Image
In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
Peter Lynch
Image
I've always been a great lover of baseball.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
Peter Lynch
Image
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
Peter Lynch
Image
I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
Peter Lynch
Image
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
Peter Lynch
Image
I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
Peter Lynch
Image
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.
Peter Lynch
Image
Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
Peter Lynch
Image
That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
Peter Lynch