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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
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the United States of America
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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
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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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I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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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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The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.
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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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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror
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I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.
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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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The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
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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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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
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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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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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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.
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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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