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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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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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That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
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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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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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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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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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My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
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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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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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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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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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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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When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
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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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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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