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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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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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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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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.
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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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