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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
Businessman
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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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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.
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It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
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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.
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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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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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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.
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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
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I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'
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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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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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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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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.
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Invest in what you know.
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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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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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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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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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