Peter Lynch Quotes

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• 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 of ten.
• Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon
• Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
• All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the…
• The best stock to buy is the one you already own.
• Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over…
• 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 could…
• Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
• Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well,…
• In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you…
• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
• The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
• If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
• In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
• There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to…
• In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
• Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use…
• Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
• If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
• Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

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