All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
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 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
As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock… — 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
The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment. — 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
More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.” — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Image
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… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes — 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
Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks. — 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
