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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
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the United States of America
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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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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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.
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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
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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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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
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As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
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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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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'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.
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Invest in what you know.
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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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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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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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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