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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
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If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.
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Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
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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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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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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, This is it. I'll never get back in again. And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
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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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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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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.
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