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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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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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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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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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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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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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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 have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
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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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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
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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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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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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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