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Peter Lynch
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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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the United States of America
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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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People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, Where did the Dow close? I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
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You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
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The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
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In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
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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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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
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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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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 typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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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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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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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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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.
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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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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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