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

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
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the United States of America
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A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, This is it. I'll never get back in again. And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway.
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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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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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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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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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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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Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
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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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Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
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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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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
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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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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
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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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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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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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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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