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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
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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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If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.
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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.
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When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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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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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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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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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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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 been a great lover of baseball.
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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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You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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