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
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
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
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. — 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
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
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
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if… — 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
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
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
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'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
Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator. — 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
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
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. — 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
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 stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment. — 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
You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it. — 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
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
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work. — 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
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up. — 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 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
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had… — 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
