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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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the United States of America
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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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All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.
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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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I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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