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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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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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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
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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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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
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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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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.
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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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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
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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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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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Invest in what you know.
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