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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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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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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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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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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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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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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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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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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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What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.
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Invest in what you know.
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Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
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