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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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There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.
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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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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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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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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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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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When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.
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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 real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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