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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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Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.
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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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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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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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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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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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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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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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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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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
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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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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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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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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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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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