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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
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
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Office
Anyone
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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.
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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
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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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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 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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In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
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