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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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the United States of America
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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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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
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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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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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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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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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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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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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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
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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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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 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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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
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