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I've always been a great lover of baseball.

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Baseball
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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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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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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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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do 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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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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As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
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That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
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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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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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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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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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, This is it. I'll never get back in again. And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
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