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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
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Investor
the United States of America
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
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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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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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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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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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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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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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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
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