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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

Peter Lynch

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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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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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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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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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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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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 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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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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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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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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