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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
Peter Lynch
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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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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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People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, Where did the Dow close? I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
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