Peter Lynch Quotes

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• Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little…
• In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account.…
• You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
• When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget…
• If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to…
• The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
• I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.
• The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
• It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues…
• People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks…
• My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes,…
• It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf…
• That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
• You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
• Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
• If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or…
• Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.
• The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
• If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty…

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