There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“The secret of his success is that he never went to business school. Imagina all the lessons he never had to unlearn.” — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when it comes… — Peter Lynch Copy Share
I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share
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… — Peter Lynch Copy Share
“In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE” — Peter Lynch Copy Share
Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two… — Peter Lynch Copy Share
A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from… — Peter Lynch Copy Share
Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. — Peter Lynch Copy Share
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. — Peter Lynch Copy Share
It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them. — Peter Lynch Copy Share
