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Portrait of Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch

(1944) Financier Ireland

146 quotes in 679 categories

Peter Lynch’s sayings cut straight to the core of what drives success, whether on Wall Street or in everyday decisions. His reflections blend market savvy with plain‑spoken wisdom, giving readers a practical compass that feels both grounded and ambitious.

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Peter Lynch is a financier from Ireland, best known for Beating the Street.

Quick Facts About Peter Lynch

Born: January 19, 1944
Nationality: Ireland
Profession: Financier
Notable works: Beating the Street

About Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch is an American investor, mutual fund manager, author and philanthropist. As the manager of the Magellan Fund at Fidelity Investments between 1977 and 1990, Lynch averaged a 29.2% annual return, consistently outperforming S&P 500 stock market index and making it the best-performing mutual fund in the world. During his 13-year tenure, assets under management increased from US$18 million to $14 billion.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Peter Lynch

Invest in what you know.

Invest

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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.

Avoid

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Don't bottom fish.

Bottom

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Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.

Behinds

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I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

Money

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Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

Bonds

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

Business

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You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes.

Big ones

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Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.

Funny

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When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

Analysts

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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

Business

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There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

Behinds

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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with…

Choices

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I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

Balls

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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

Customer

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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

Customer

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The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

America

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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Bad thing

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Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

Analyst

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I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be…

Customer

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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and…

Big time

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When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take…

Baseball

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The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as…

Annuals

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Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks…

Average

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If you can find a company that can get away with raising prices year after year without losing customers (an addictive product…

Bills

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A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This…

Get back

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The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not…

Company

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Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost…

Acquire

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There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors.…

Best effort

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The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility,…

Ability

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Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar…

Answers

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If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe…

Assuming

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Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months…

Be patient

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A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To…

Bargains

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Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement…

Consistency

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You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Bottom

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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

Customer

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You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

Future

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Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Advisors

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Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Best investment

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