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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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When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.
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Long shots almost always miss the mark.
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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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You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
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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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In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
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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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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.
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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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As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
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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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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.
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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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I've always been a great lover of baseball.
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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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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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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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