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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.
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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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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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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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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'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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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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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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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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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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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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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
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When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.
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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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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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