It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile. — 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
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
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
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
Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your… — 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
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
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't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some. — 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
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
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
Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts… — 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
Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work. — 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
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't… — 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
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
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
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
“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
