An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. — 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
You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker. — 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
Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go… — 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
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a… — 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
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock,… — 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
“Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business” — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and… — 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
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 you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not… — 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
In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or… — 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 old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on… — 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
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
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
“Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many… — 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 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 go up.… — 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 fifth grader… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE” — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
