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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 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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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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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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The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
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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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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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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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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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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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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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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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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 the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
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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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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
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