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I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

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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Invest in what you know.
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If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.
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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 have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
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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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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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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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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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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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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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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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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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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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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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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
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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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In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
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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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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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