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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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The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
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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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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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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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Charts are great for predicting the past.
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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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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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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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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
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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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Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
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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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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.
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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.
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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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