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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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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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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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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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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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I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.
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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 stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
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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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The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.
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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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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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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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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
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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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