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Peter Lynch
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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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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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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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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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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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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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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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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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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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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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